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may be worth your hearing. You may make an- 

 other choice bait thus : take a handful or two of the 

 best and biggest wheat you can get ; boil it in a little 

 milk, like as frumity is boiled ; boil it so till it be 

 soft ; and then fry it, very leisurely, with honey, and 

 a little beaten saffron dissolved in milk ; and you will 

 find this a choice bait, and good, I think, for any fish, 

 especially for Roach, Dace, Chub, or Grayling : I 

 know not but that it may be as good for a river Carp, 

 and especially if the ground be a little baited with it. 



And you may also note, that the SPAWN of most 

 fish is a very tempting bait, being a little hardened 

 on a warm tile and cut into fit pieces. Nay, mul- 

 berries, and those black-berries which grow upon 

 briars, be good baits for Chubs or Carps : with these 

 many have been taken in ponds, and in some rivers 

 where such trees have grown near the water, and 

 the fruit customarily dropt into it. And there be a 

 hundred other baits, more than can be well named, 

 which, by constant baiting the water, will become a 

 tempting bait for any fish in it. 



You are also to know, that there be divers kinds 

 of CADIS,, or Case-worms, that are to be found in 

 this nation, in several distinct counties, in several 

 little, brooks that relate to bigger rivers ; as namely, 

 one cadis called a piper, whose husk, or case, is a 

 piece of reed about an inch long, or longer, and as 

 big about as the compass of a two-pence. These 

 worms being kept three or four days in a woollen 

 bag, with sand at the bottom of it, and the bag wet 

 once a day, will in three or four days turn to be 

 yellow ; and these be a choice bait for the Chub 

 or Chavender, or indeed for any great fish, for it is a 

 large bait. 



There is also a lesser cadis-worm, called a Cock- 

 spur, being in fashion like the spur of a cock, sharp 

 at one end ; and the case, or house, in which this 



