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beUer and with more hope be fished for, you are to throw into it, 

 in some certain place, either grains or blood mixed with cow. 

 dung, or with bran ; or any garbage, as chicken's guts or the 

 like, and then some of your small sweet pellets with which you 

 purpose to angle ; and these small pellets being a few of them 

 also thrown in as you are angling, will be the better. 



And your paste must be thus made : Take the flesh of a rabbit 

 or a cat cut small, and bean-flour, and if that may not be easily 

 got, get other flour, and then mix these together, and put to them 

 either sugar, or honey, which I think better, and then beat these 

 together in a mortar, or sometimes work them in your hands, 

 your hands being very clean, and then make it into a ball, or 

 two, or three, as you like best for your use : but you must work 

 or pound it so long in the mortar, as to make it so tough as to 

 hang upon your hook without washing from it, yet not too hard ; 

 or that you may the better keep it on your hook, you may knead 

 with your paste a little and not much, white or yellowish wool. 



And if you would have this paste keep all the year for any 

 other fish, then mix with it virgin-wax and clarified honey, and 

 work them together with your hands before the fire, then make 

 these into balls, and they will keep all the year. 



And if you fish for a carp with gentles, then put upon your 

 hook a small piece of scarlet about this bigness, ^ it being 

 soaked in or anointed with oil of peter, called by some oil of the 

 rock ; and if your gentles be put two or three days before into a 

 box or horn anointed with honey, and so put upon your hook as 

 to preserve them to be living, you are as like to kill this crafty 

 fish this way as any other : but still, as you are fishing, chew a 

 little white or brown bread in your mouth, and cast it into the 

 pond about the place where your float swims. Other baits there 

 be ; but these, with diligence and patient watchfulness, will do 

 it better than any that I have ever practised or heard of: and 

 yet I shall tell you, that the crumbs of white bread and honey, 

 nade into a paste, is a good bait for a carp ; and you know it is 

 nore easily made. And having said thus much of the carp, my 

 lext discourse shall be of the bream ; which shall not prove so 

 .edious, and therefore I desire the continuance of your attention. 



But, tirst, I will tell you how to make this carp, that is so 



