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sorts. Some breed only in the earth, as the earth- 

 worm ; others of or amongst plants, as the dug- 

 worm ; and others breed either out of excrements 

 or in the bodies of living creatures, as in the horns 

 of sheep or deer ; or some of dead flesh, as the 

 maggot or gentle, and others. 



Now, these be most of them particularly good 

 for particular fishes. But for the trout, the dew- 

 worm, which some also call the lob-worm, and the 

 brandling are the chief; and especially the first for 

 a great trout, and the latter for a less. There be 

 also of lob-worms some called squirrel-tails, a 

 worm that has a red head, a streak down the 

 back, and a broad tail, which are noted to be 

 the best, because they are the toughest, and most 

 lively, and live longest in the water ; for you are to 

 know that a dead worm is but a dead bait, and 

 like to catch nothing, compared to a lively, quick, 

 stirring worm. And for a brandling he is usually 

 found in an old dung-hill or some very rotten 

 place near to it ; but most usually in cow-dung or 

 hog's dung, rather than horse-dung, which is some- 

 what too hot and dry for that worm. But the 

 best of them are to be found in the bark of the 

 tanners, which they cast up in heaps after they 

 have used it about their leather. 



There are also divers other kinds of worms, 

 which for color and shape alter even as the ground 

 out of which they are got, as the marsh-worm, 

 the tag-tail, the flag- worm, the dock-worm, the 

 oak-worm, the gilt-tail, the twachel or lob-worm, 



