g(4 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



I know, brotlier, you and your scholar will lie together ; but 

 where sliall wc meet to-morrow night ? for my friend Coridon 

 and I will go up the water towards Ware. 



Pisc. And my scholar and I will go down towards Waltham. 

 Cor. Then let's meet here ; for here are fresh sheets that 

 smell of lavender, and I am sure we cannot expect better meat 

 or better usage in any place. 



Pet. 'Tis a match. Good night to everybody. 

 Pisc. And so say I. 

 Ven. And so say I. 



Pisc. Good morrow, good Hostess ; I see my brother Peter is 

 still in bed : Come, give my scholar and me a morning-drink, 

 and a bit of meat to breakfast ; and be sure to get a good dish 

 of meat or two against supper, for we shall come home as hungry 

 as hawks. Come, scholar, let's be going. 



Ven. Well, now, good Master, as we walk towards the river 

 give me direction, according to your promise, how I shall fish for 



a trout. 



Pisc. My honest Scholar, I will take this very convenient 



opportunity to do it. 



The trout is usually caught with a worm or a minnow, which 

 some call a penk, or with a fly, viz., either a natural or an artifi- 

 cial fly : concerning which three I will give you some observa- 

 tions and directions. 



Ami, first, for worms : of these there be very many sorts ; 

 some breed only in the earth, as the earth-worm ; others of or 

 amongst plants, as the dug-worm ; and others breed either out of 

 excrements, or in the bodies of living creatures, as in the horns 

 of sheep or deer ; or some of dead flesh, as the maggot or gen- 

 tie, and others.* 



* The lob-ivorm, twachel, dew-worm, is our common garden ;«orm, and 

 may be found in any richly manured and damp ground. The largest which 

 are of a dirty yellow on the belly, are the best. Erasmus, in his Collo- 

 quies {Venatio), brings these worms to the surface by pouring an infusion 

 of walnut leaves or green shells of walnuts on the ground; and Bowlker 

 recommends the practice. 



The marsh worms are found where their name indicates, and in me i- 

 dows under cow dung. They are of a blue or purple color, and too brittle 

 unless well scoured. 



