134 T/ie Address to the Reader. 



I write not to get money, but for pleasure, 

 and this Discourse boasts of no more ; 

 for I hate to promise much and deceive 

 the Reader. 



" And however it proves to him, yet I 

 am sure I have found a high content in 

 the search and conference of what is here 

 offer'd to the Reader's view and censure : 

 I wish him as much in the perusal of it, 

 and so I might here take my leave, but 

 will stay a little and tell him, that whereas 

 it is said by many, that in Flye-fishing for 

 a Trout, the Angler must observe his 

 12 several flies for the twelve months of 

 the year ; I say, he that follows that rule, 

 shall be as sure to catch fish, and, be as 

 wise, as he that makes Hay by the fair 

 days in an Almanack, and no surer ; for 

 those very flies that use to appear about 

 and on the water in one month of the 

 year, may the following year come almost 

 a month sooner or later ; as the same year 

 proves colder or hotter; and yet in the 

 following Discourse I have set down the 

 twelve flies that are in reputation with 

 many Anglers, and they may serve to give 

 him some observations concerning them. 

 And he may note that there are in Wales 

 and other countries, peculiar flies, proper 

 to the particular place or country; and 

 doubtless unless a man makes a flie to 



