15S 



THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



affirms,* and I quote my author, because it seems almost as in- 

 credible as the resurrection to an atheist. But it may win some- 

 thing in point of believing it, to him that considers the breeding 

 or renovation of the silk-worm, and of many insects. And that 

 is considerable which Sir Francis Bacon observes in his History 

 of Life and Death, fol. 20, that there be some herbs that die and 

 spring every year, and some endure longer. 



But though some do not, yet the French esteem this fish high- 

 ly ; and to that end have this proverb, " He that hath breams in 

 his pond, is able to bid his friend welcome." And it is noted, 

 that the best part of a bream is his belly and head.f 



Some say that breams and roaches will mix their eggs and 

 melt together, and so there is in many places a bastard breed of 

 breams,:}^ that never come to be either large or good, but very 

 numerous. 



The baits good to catch this Bream 



J.NN.ORW, Ac, 



♦ This story is certainly in Gesner ; but he has a fashion of telling every 

 remarkable thing of the kind with an ut audio, leaving his reader to frame 

 his own faith as suits him, which freedom I have here a mind to exercise. 

 Similar statements are often made in this country of frozen ponds.— .im. Ed. 



t The bream seems formerly to have been a favorite dish in Englind. 

 Sir William Dugdale has preserved a curious instance of the great price, 

 at least in the interior parts of the kingdom, which it bore as long ago as 

 the 7th year of Henry V., when it was rated at 20rf. And he informs us 

 that in the 32d Henry VL, 1454, " A pye of four of them, in the exigences 

 of two men employed for three days in taking them, in baking them, in 

 flour, in spicej^, and conveying it from Sutton in Warwickshire to the Earl 

 of Warwick at Mydlam in the North Country, cost xvjs. ij J." — Antiquities 

 of Warwickshire, p. COS.— &'?> H. JVicholas. 



X " On voit ordinairemeut, a la tetc d'une troupe de ces cypririS, un 



