chap, v.] THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 129 



Nay, more, th'have names, and when they called are, 



Do to their several owners' call repair. 

 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 cer- 

 tain, that certain fields near Lemster, 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, being 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, " Every thing is beautiful in his 

 " season." Eccles. iii. 11. 



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 



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