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and take up so much of your attention, as to tell 

 you, that the best of Pikes are noted to be in rivers, 

 next, those in great ponds, or meres, and the worst 

 in small ponds. 



But before I proceed further, I am to tell you 

 that there is a great antipathy betwixt the Pike and 

 some frogs : and this may appear to the reader of 

 Dubravius, a Bishop in Bohemia, who in his book " Of 

 Fish and Fish-ponds," relates what he says he saw 

 with his own eyes, and could not forbear to tell the 

 reader. Which was : 



"As he and the Bishop Thurzo were walking by 

 " a large pond in Bohemia, they saw a Frog, when 

 " the Pike lay very sleepily and quiet by the shore- 

 " side, leap upon his head ; and the Frog having 

 " expressed malice or anger by his swollen cheeks 

 " and staring eyes, did stretch out his legs and em- 

 " braced the Pike's head, and presently reached 

 " them to his eyes, tearing with them and his teeth 

 " those tender parts : the Pike, moved with an- 

 " guish, moves up and down the water, and rubs 

 " himself against weeds, and whatever he thought 

 " might quit him of his enemy : but all in vain, for 

 " the Frog did continue to ride triumphantly, and 

 " to bite and torment the Pike, till his strength 

 " failed ; and then the Frog sunk with the Pike to 

 " the bottom of the water : then presently the Frog 

 " appeared again at the top and croaked, and 

 " seemed to rejoice like a conqueror, after which 

 " he presently retired to his secret hole. The Bi- 

 " shop, that had beheld the battle, called his fisher- 



