OBSERVATIONS OF THE OTTER AND CHUB 



lately whelped, let 's go to the place where she was put down, 

 and not far from it you will find all her young ones, I dare 

 warrant you, and kill them all too. 



HUNT. Come, gentlemen, come all, let's go to the place 

 where we put down the Otter. Look you, hereabout it was 

 that she kennelled ; look you, here it was indeed, for here 's 

 her young ones, no less than five ; come let 's kill them all. 



Pise. No, I pray Sir, save me one, and I'll try if I can 

 make her tame, as I know an ingenious gentleman in Leicester- 

 shire, Mr. Nich. Seagrave, has done ; who hath not only made 

 her tame, but to catch fish, and do many other things of much 

 pleasure. 



HUNT. Take one with all my heart, but let us kill the 

 rest. And now let 's go to an honest Ale-house, where we may 

 have a cup of good Barley-wine, and sing Old Rose, and all 

 of us rejoice together. 



VEN. Come my friend Piscator, let me invite you along 

 with us ; I '11 bear your charges this night, and you shall bear 

 mine to-morrow ; for my intention is to accompany you a day 

 or two in fishing. 



Pise. Sir, your request is granted, and I shall be right 

 glad, both to exchange such a courtesy, and also to enjoy 

 your company. 



VEN. Well, now let 's go to your sport of Angling. 



Pise. Let's be going with all my heart. God keep you 

 all, Gentlemen, and send you meet this day with another Bitch- 

 Otter, and kill her merrily, and all her young ones too. 



VEN. Now, Piscator, where will you begin to fish ? 



Pise. We are not yet come to a likely place, I must walk 

 a mile further yet, before I begin. 



VEN. Well then, I pray, as we walk tell me freely, how 

 do you like your lodging and mine Host and the company? 

 Is not mine Host a witty man? 



Pise. Sir, I will tell you presently what I think of your 



Host ; but first I will tell you, I am glad these Otters were 



killed, and I am sorry that there are no more Otter-killers : 



for I know that the want of Otter-killers, and the not keeping 



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