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CHAPTER XVII. 



OF ROACH AND DACE, AND HOW TO FISH FOR 

 THEM ; AND OF CADIS. 



J7ENATOR. Good master, as we go now 



towards London, be still so courteous as to 



give me more instructions, for I have several boxes 



in my memory, in which I will keep them all very 



safe ; there shall not one of them be lost. 



Pise. Well, scholar, that I will ; and I will hide 

 nothing from you that I can remember, and can 

 think may help you forward towards a perfection 

 in this art. And because we have so much time, 

 and I have said so little of roach and dace, I will 

 give you some directions concerning them. 



Some say the roach is so called from rutilus, 

 which, they say, signifies red fins. He is a fish of 

 no great reputation for his dainty taste ; and his 

 spawn is accounted much better than any other 

 part of him. And you may take notice that as the 

 carp is accounted the water-fox for his cunning, so 

 the roach is accounted the water-sheep for his sim- 

 plicity or foolishness. It is noted that the roach 

 and dace recover strength, and grow in season in 



