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taste well ? and was not this place well chosen to eat it ? for this 

 svcamore-tree will shade us from the sun's heat. 



Ven. All excellent good, and my stomach excellent good too. 

 And now I remember and find that true which devout Lessius* 

 says, " that poor 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 saving of yours, " that you would rather be a civil, well- 

 governed, well-grounded, temperate, poor angler, than a drunken 

 lord." But I hope there is none such ; however, I am certain 

 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. 



Pisc. l\Iy 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 to me by an ingenious 

 brother of the angle, an honest man, and a most excellent fiy- 

 fisher. 



You are to note, that there are twelve kinds of artificial made- 

 flies to angle with upon the top of the water if note by the way, 

 that the fittest season of using these, is a blustering windy day, 



* Leonard Lessius, born near Antwerp, a Jesuit, first Professor of Philo- 

 sophy at Douav, afterwards of Divinity at Louvain. He wrote De Justitia 

 et De Jure ; De Potestate Summi Pontijicis ; A Treatise on the Existence 

 of the Deity, and on the Soul's Immortality; and another, which was 

 translated by T[imothy] S[mith], with the title " Hygiasticon ; or the 

 Right Course of Preserving Life and Health unto Extreme Old Age," 

 Camb., 1634, 12mo. He died in 1623, at the age of m.— Compiled by Am. 

 Ed. 



t These are the flies in the Berners Treatyse, the description being in 

 nearly the same words. As has been s lid before, these twelve lie at the 

 foundation of the whole science of fly-fishing. Sir Harris Nicholas siys 

 that the excellent fly-fisher " to whom Walton alludes was Leonard Mas- 

 call, from whose book (See Bib. Pref.) the ensuing list of flies is copied 

 verbatim ;" but Mascall, whose book was published in 1596, could hardly 



