250 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



not very much mistaken, a tempting bait, and the 

 angler more fortunate. But I stepped by chance 

 into this discourse of oils, and fishes smelling ; and 

 though there might be more said, both of it and of 

 baits for roach and dace and other float-fish, yet 

 I will forbear it at this time, and tell you in the 

 next place how you are to prepare your tackling : 

 concerning which I will, for sport-sake, give you an 

 old rhyme out of an old fish-book, which will 

 prove a part and but a part of what you are to 

 provide. 



" My rod and my line, my float and my lead, 



My hook and my plummet, my whetstone and knife, 



My basket, my baits both living and dead, 

 My net and my meat, for that is the chief: 



Then I must have thread, and hairs green and small, 

 With mine angling-purse, and so you have all." 



But you must have all these tackling and twice 

 so many more, with which, if you mean to be a 

 fisher, you must store yourself; and to that pur- 

 pose I will go with you either to Mr. Margrave, 

 who dwells amongst the booksellers in St. Paul's 

 Churchyard, or to Mr. John Stubbs, near to the 

 Swan in Golding Lane ; they be both honest 

 men, and will fit an angler with what tackling he 

 lacks. 



Ven. Then, good master, let it be at , for 



he is nearest to my dwelling ; and I pray let 's meet 

 there the pth of May next, about two of the clock ; 

 and I '11 want nothing that a fisher should be fur- 

 nished with. 



