224 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. [part i. 



brain or breast of some cbemical man, that like the 

 Rosicrucians, will not yet reveal it. But let me 

 nevertheless tell you, that camphor, put with moss 

 into your worm-bag with your worms, makes them, 

 if many Anglers be not very much mistaken, a 

 tempting bait, and the Angler more fortunate. But 

 I stepped by chance into this discourse of oils, and 

 fishes smelling; and though there might be more 

 said, both of it and of baits for Roach and Dace, 

 and other float-fish, yet I will forbear it at this 

 time, and tell you in the next place how you are to 

 prepare your tackling : concerning which, I will for 

 sport-sake, give you an old rhyme out of an old fish- 

 book, which will prove a part, and but a part, of 

 what you are to provide. 



My rod and my line, my float and my lead, 



My hook and my plummet, my rvhetstone and knife, 



My basket, my baits both living and dead, 

 My net and my meat, for that is the chief: 



Then I must have thread, and hairs green and small, 



With mine Angling -purse, and so you have all. 



But you must have all these tackling, and twice 



so many more, with which, if you mean to be a 



Fisher, you must store vourself; 

 / hare heard that 

 the tackling hath and to that purpose I will go with 



been priced at either to Mr. Margrave, who 



Fifty pounds, in J . 



the Inventory of dwells amongst the booksellers in 

 an Angler. gt< p auVs Church-yard, or to Mr. 



John Stubbs, near to the Swan in Golding-lane ; they 



