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will fill six reasonable bellies. Come, Hostess, 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 fore- 

 fathers did use to drink of; the drink which preserved their 

 health, and made them live so long, and to do so many great 

 deeds. 



Peter. O'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 him up and make him a fisher. 



And I will tell him one thing for his encouragement, that his 

 fortune hath made him happy to be scholar to such a master ; a 

 master that knows as much both of the nature and breeding ot 

 fish as any man ; and can also tell him as well how to catch and 

 cook them, from the minnow to the salmon, as any that I ever 

 met withal. 



Pisc. Trust me, brother Peter, I find my scholar to be so suita- 

 ble to my own humor, which is to be free, and pleasant, and 

 civilly merry, that my resolution is to hide nothing that I know 

 from him. Believe me. Scholar, this is my resolution ; and so 

 here's to you a hearty draught, and to all that love us, and the 

 honest art of anglinfr. 



Ven. Trust me, good IMaster, you shall not sow your seed in 

 barren ground, for 1 hope to return you an increase answerable 

 to your hopes ; but however you shall find me obedient, and 

 thankful, and serviceable to my best ability. 



Pisc. 'Tis enough, honest Scholar, come, let's to supper. 

 Come, my friend Coridon, the trout looks lovely, it was twenty- 

 two inches when it was taken, and the belly of it looked some 

 part of it as yellow as a marigold, and part of it white as a lily ; 

 and yet, methinks, it looks better in this good sauce. 



Coridon. Indeed, honest friend, it looks well, and tastes well ; 

 I thank you for it, and so doth my friend Peter, or else he is to 

 blame. 



Pet. Yes, and so I do, we all thank you ; and when we have 



