The Fourth Day 109 



All the further use that I shall make of this shall 

 be, to advise anglers to be patient, and forbear 

 swearing, lest they be heard> and catch no fish. 



And so I shall proceed next to tell you, it is 

 certain that certain fields near Leominster, a town 

 in Herefordshire, are observed to make the sheep 

 that graze upon them more fat than the next, and 

 also to bear finer wool ; that is to say, that that 

 year in which they feed in such a particular pasture, 

 they shall yield finer wool than they did that year 

 before they came to feed in it ; and coarser, again, 

 if they shall return to their former pasture ; and,, 

 again, return to a finer wool, beirfg fed in the fine 

 wool ground : which I tell you, that you may the 

 better believe that I am certain, if I catch a Trout 

 in one meadow, he shall be white and faint, and 

 very like to be lousy ; and, as certainly, if I catch 

 a Trout in the next meadow, he shall be strong, and 

 red, and lusty, and much better meat. Trust me, 

 scholar, I have caught many a Trout in a particular 

 meadow, that the very shape and the enamelled 

 colour of him hath been such as hath joyed me to 

 look on him : and I have then, with much pleasure, 

 concluded with Solomon, " Everything is beautiful 

 in his season". 



I should, by promise, speak next of the Salmon \ 

 but I will, by your favour, say a little of the Umber 

 or Grayling ; which is so like a Trout for his shape 

 and feeding, that I desire I may exercise your 

 patience with a short discourse of him ; and then, 

 the next shall be of the Salmon. 



