The Compleat ^Angler 



shall return to their former pasture ; and again return to a finer 

 wool, being fed in the fine-wool ground. Which I tell you, that you 

 may the better believe that I am certain, if I catch a trout in one 

 meadow he shall be white and faint, and very like to be lousy ; and 

 as certainly, if I catch a trout in the next meadow, he shall be strong, 

 and red, and lusty, and much better meat. Trust me, scholar, I have 

 caught many a trout in a particular meadow, that the very shape and 

 the enamelled colour of him hath been such as have joyed me to look 

 on him ; and I have then with much pleasure concluded with Solomon, 

 " Everything is beautiful in his season." 



I should by promise speak next of the salmon ; but I will by your 

 favour say a little of the umber or grayling, which is so like a trout 

 for his shape and feeding, that I desire I may exercise your patience 

 with a short discourse of him, and then the next shall be of the 

 salmon. 



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