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there is none such. However, I am certain of this, 

 that I have been at many very costly dinners that 

 have not afforded me half the content that this has 

 done, for which I thank God and you. 



And now, good Master, proceed to your promised 

 direction for making and ordering my Artificial-fly. 



Pise. My honest Scholar, I will do it, for it is a 

 debt due unto you by my promise. And because 

 you shall not think yourself more engaged to me 

 than indeed you really are, I will freely give you 

 such directions as were lately given to me by an 

 ingenious Brother of the Angle, an honest man, 

 and a most excellent fly-fisher. 



You are to note, that there are twelve kinds of 

 artificial- made Flies to angle with upon the top of 

 the water. Note by the way, that the fittest season 

 of using these, is a blustering windy day, when the 

 waters are so troubled that the natural-fly cannot 

 be seen, or rest upon them. The first is the Dun- 

 fly in March : the body is made of dun w r ool, the 

 wings of the partridge's feathers. The second is 

 another Dun-fly : the body of black wool, and the 

 wings made of the black- drake's feathers, and of 

 the feathers under his tail. The third is the Stone- 

 fly in April : the body is made of black wool, made 

 yellow under the wings, and under the tail, and so 

 made with wings of the drake. The fourth is the 

 Ruddy-fly in the beginning of May, the body made 

 of red wool wrapt about with black silk, and the 

 feathers are the wings of the drake ; with the fea- 



