THE COMPLETE ANGLER, 11$ 



Pise. Nay, brother, you shall not stay so long ; 

 for look you, here is a trout will fill six reasonable 

 bellies. 



Come, hostess, dress it presently, and get us 

 what other meat the house will afford, and give us 

 some of your best barley-wine, the good liquor 

 that our honest forefathers did use to drink of, 

 the drink which preserved their health, and made 

 them live so long, and to do so many good deeds. 



Peter. O' my word, this trout is perfect in sea- 

 son. Come, I thank you, and here is a hearty 

 draught to you, and to all the brothers of the angle 

 wheresoever they be, and to my young brother's 

 good fortune to-morrow. I will furnish him with 

 a rod if you will furnish him with the rest of the 

 tackling; we will set him up and make him a 

 fisher. 



And I will tell him one thing for his encourage- 

 ment that his fortune hath made him happy to be 

 scholar to such a master ; a master that knows as 

 much both of the nature and breeding of fish as 

 any man, and can also tell him as well how to 

 catch and cook them, from the minnow to the 

 salmon, as any that I ever met withal. 



Pise. Trust me, brother Peter, I find my scholar 

 to be so suitable to my own good humor, which is 

 to be free and pleasant and civilly merry, that my 

 resolution is to hide nothing that I know from 

 him. Believe me, scholar, this is my resolution : 

 and so here 's to you a hearty draught, and to all 

 that love us and the honest art of angling. 



