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see what interest the trouts will pay us for letting 

 our angle-rods lie so long and so quietly in the 

 water for their use. Come, scholar, which will 

 you take up? 



Ven. Which you think fit, master. 



Pise. Why, you shall take up that ; for I am 

 certain, by viewing the line, it has a fish at it. 

 Look you, scholar ! Well done ! Come now, 

 take up the other too. Well ! Now you may tell 

 my brother Peter at night that you have caught a 

 leash of trouts this day. And now let 's move 

 toward our lodging, and v drink a draught of red- 

 cow's milk as we go, and give pretty Maudlin and 

 her honest mother a brace of trouts for their 

 supper. 



Ven. Master, I like your motion very well ; 

 and I think it is now about milking-time, and 

 yonder they be at it. 



Pise. God speed you, good woman ! I thank 

 you both for our songs last night : I and my com- 

 panion have had such fortune a-fishing this day 

 that we resolved to give you and Maudlin a brace 

 of trouts for supper, and we will now taste a 

 draught of your red-cow's milk. 



Milkw. Marry, and that you shall with all my 

 heart, and I will be still your debtor when you 

 come this way : if you will but speak the word, I 

 will make you a good syllabub of new verjuice, 

 and then you may sit down in a hay-cock and eat 

 it ; and Maudlin shall sit by and sing you the good 

 old song of the " Hunting in Chevy Chace," or 



