The Compleat <Angler 



Pise. What is it, I pray, sir ? You are so modest, that methinks 

 I may promise to grant it before it is asked. 



VEN. Why, sir, it is, that from henceforth you would allow me 

 to call you Master, and that really I may be your scholar ; for you 

 are such a companion, and have so quickly caught, and so excel- 

 lently cooked this fish, as makes me ambitious to be your scholar. 



Pise. Give me your hand; from this time forward I will be your 

 master, and teach you as much of this art as I am able ; and will, as 

 you desire me, tell you somewhat of the nature of most of the fish 

 that we are to angle for ; and I am sure I both can and will tell you 

 more than any common Angler yet knows. 



