84 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. [PART I. 



you another dish of fish one of these days ; and then beg another 

 song of you. Come, scholar ! let Maudlin alone : do not you 

 offer to spoil her voice. Look ! yonder comes mine hostess, to 

 call us to supper. How now ! is my brother Peter come ? 



HOSTESS. Yes, and a friend with him. They are both glad 

 to hear that you are in these parts, and long to see you ; 2 and 

 long to be at supper, for they be very hungry. 



CHAP. v. PlSCATOR. WELL met, brother Peter ! I heard 



On the Trout. y OU an( j a friend would lodge here to-night ; and 

 that hath made 3 me to bring my friend to lodge here too. My 

 friend is one that would fain be a brother of the angle : he hath 

 been an angler but this day ; and I have taught him how to catch 

 a Chub, by dapping with a grasshopper ; 4 and the Chub he caught 

 was a lusty one of nineteen inches long. But pray, brother Peter, 

 who is your companion ? 



PETER. Brother Piscator, my friend is an honest countryman, 

 and his name is Coridon ; 5 and he is a downright witty companion, 

 that met me here purposely to be pleasant and eat a Trout ; and 

 I have not yet wetted my line since we met together : but I hope 

 to fit him with a Trout for his breakfast ; for I'll be early up. 



PlSCATOR. Nay, brother, you shall not stay so long ; for look 

 you ! here is a Trout will fill six reasonable bellies. 



Come, hostess, 6 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 7 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. On my word, this Trout is perfect in season. 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 



VARIATIONS. 



2 long to see you, and are hungry, and long to be at supper. Till $th edit. 



3 hath made me and my friend cast to lodge here too. Till $th edit. 



* grasshopper ; and he hath caught a lusty one of nineteen inches long. But I pray, 

 brother, who is it that is your companion? Till stk edit. 



6 Coridon, a most downright, witty, and merry companion, that met me here purposely 

 to eat a Trout and to be pleasant, and I have not yet wet my line since I came from 

 home : but I will fit him to-morrow with a Trout for his breakfast, if the weather be 

 anything like. 



Piscator. Nay, brother, you shall not delay him so long, for look you, here is a 

 Trout. Till ^th edit. 



6 Come, hostess, dress it presently, and get us what other meat the house will afford, 

 and give us some good ale, and let's be merry. \st edit. 



7 that our good honest forefathers used to drink of, which preserved, &c Till$th edit. 



