THE COMPLETE ANGLER. [part i. 



the highest mettled hawk doth seize on a partridge, 

 or a greyhound on a hare. I have been told, that 

 one hundred and sixtv Minnows have been found in 

 a Trout's belly ; either the Trout had devoured so 

 many, or the Miller that gave it a friend of mine, 

 had forced them down his throat after he had taken 

 him. 



Now for Flies, which is the third bait wherewith 

 Trouts are usually taken. You are to know, that 

 there are so many sorts of flies as there be of fruits : 

 I will name you but some of them ; as the Dun-fly, 

 the Stone-fly, the Red-fly, the Moor-fly, the Tawny- 

 fly, the Shell-fly, the Cloudy or Blackish-fly, the 

 Flag-fly, the Vine-fly : there be of flies, Caterpillars, 

 and Canker-flies, and Bear-flies ; and indeed too 

 many either for me to name or for you to remem- 

 ber : and their breeding is so various and wonderful, 

 that I might easily amaze myself, and tire you in 

 a relation of them. 



And yet I will exercise your promised patience 

 by saving a little of the Caterpillar, or the Palmer - 

 fly or worm, that by them you may guess, what a 

 work it were in a discourse but to run over those 

 very many flies, worms, and little living creatures 

 with which the sun and summer adorn and beautify 

 the river-banks and meadows, both for the recrea- 

 tion and contemplation of us Anglers : pleasures 

 which, I think, myself enjoy more than any other 

 man that is not of my profession. 



Plimj holds an opinion, that many have their birth 



