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" men, and those that fast often, have much more 

 " pleasure in eating than rich men, and gluttons, 

 " that always feed before their stomachs are empty 

 " of their last meat and call for more ; for by that 

 " means, they rob themselves of that pleasure that 

 hunger brings to poor men." And I do seriously 

 approve of that saying of yours, u that you had 

 " rather be a civil, well-governed, well-grounded, 

 " temperate, poor angler, than a drunken lord :" 

 But I hope there is none such. How ever I am cer- 

 tain of this that I have been at many very costly 

 dinners that have not afforded me half the content 

 that this has done ; for which I thank God and 

 you. 



And now, good master ! proceed to your promised 

 direction for making and ordering my artificial fly. 



Pise. My honest scholar, I will do it ; for it is a 

 debt due unto you by my promise. And because 

 you shall not think yourself more engaged to me than 

 indeed you really are, I will freely give you such 

 directions as were lately given tome by an ingenious 

 brother of the angle, an honest man, and a most 

 excellent fly-fisher. 



You are to note, That there are twelve kinds of 

 artificial made-flies, to angle with upon the top of 

 the water. Note, by the way, That the fittest season 

 of using these, is a blustering windy day, when the 

 waters are so troubled that the natural fly cannot be 

 seen, or rest upon them. The FIRST is the dun- 

 fly, in March : the body is made of dun-wool ; 

 the wings of the partridge's feathers. The SECOND 

 is another dun-fly: the body, of black wool; 

 and the wings made of the black drake's feathers, 

 and of the feathers under his tail. The THIRD i$ 

 the stone-fly, in April : the body is made of black 



and became very famous for his skill in divinity, civil law, mathe- 

 maticks, physick, and history : he wrote several theological tracts, and 

 a book entitled, Hygiasticon, seu *vtra ratio valetudinls bvna, fy *uit 

 ad extremam senectutcm conservanda. See Walton's Life prefixed. From, 

 this tract of Lessius, it is probable the passage in the text U cited? 

 He died 1623. 



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