48 The Secrets of Angling. 



But euery Fish loues not each bayte alike, 



Although sometime they feede vpon the same ; 



But some doe one, and some another seeke, 



As best vnto their appetite doth frame, 



The Roche, the Bream, the Carpe, the Chub, and Bleik, 



With paste or Come their greedy hunger tame, 



The Dace, the Ruffe, the Goodgion and the rest, 

 The smaller sort of crawling wormes loue best. 



The Chauender and Chub doe more delight 



To feede on tender Cheese, or Cherries red, 



Blacke snayles, their bellies slit to shew their white, 



Or Qrashoppers that skip in euery Meade ; 



The Pearch, the Tench, and Eele, doe rather bite 



At great red wormes, in Field or Garden bred, 



That haue beene scowr'd in mosse or Fenell rough, 

 To rid their filth, and make them hard and tough. 



And with this bayte hath often taken bin 

 The Salmon faire, of Riuer-fish the best ; 

 The Shad, that in the Spring time commeth in, 

 The Suant swift, that is not set by least, 

 The Bocher sweet, the pleasant Flounder thin, 

 The Peele, the Tiveat, the Boiling, and the rest, 



With many more, that in the deepe doth lye 

 Of Auon, Vske, of Seuerne and of Wye. 



Alike they bite, alike they pull downe low 

 The sinking Corke that striues to rise againe, 

 And when they feele the sudden deadly blow, 

 Alike they shunne the danger and the paine ; 

 And as an arrow from the Scithian bow, 

 All flee alike into the streame amainc, 



Vntill the Angler by his wary skill, 



There tyres them out, and brings them vp at will. 



