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comes near to him ; and he especially loves the 

 May-fly, which is bred of the cod-worm or cadis ; 

 and these make the trout bold and lusty, and he 

 is usually fatter and better meat at the end of that 

 month than at any time of the year. 



Now, you are to know that it is observed that 

 usually the best trouts are either red or yellow, 

 though some, as the Fordidge trout, be white and 

 yet good ; but that is not usual. And it is a note 

 observable that the female trout hath usually a less 

 head and a deeper body than the male trout, and 

 is usually the better meat. And note that a hog- 

 back and a little head to either trout, salmon, or 

 any other fish, is a sign that that fish is in season. 



But yet you are to note that as you see some 

 willows or palm-trees bud and blossom sooner 

 than others do, so some trouts be in rivers sooner 

 in season. And as some hollies or oaks are longer 

 before they cast their leaves, so are some trouts in 

 rivers longer before they go out of season. 



And you are to note that there are several kinds 

 of trouts ; but these several kinds are not considered 

 but by very few men, for they go under the gene- 

 ral name of trouts, just as pigeons do in most 

 places, though it is certain there are tame and wild 

 pigeons ; and of the tame there be helmits and 

 runts, and carriers and cropers, and indeed too 

 many to name. Nay, the Royal Society have 

 found and published lately, that there be thirty 

 and three kinds of spiders, and yet all, for aught 

 I know, go under that one general name of spider. 



