CHAPTER V. MORE DIRECTIONS HOW TO FISH 

 FOR, AND HOW TO MAKE FOR THE TROUT AN 

 ARTIFICIAL MINNOW, AND FLIES, WITH SOME 



MERRIMENT 





 PISCATOR, PETER, VENATOR, CORIDON 



PISCATOR. Well met, Brother Peter ; I heard you and a 

 friend would lodge here to-night, and that hath made me 

 to bring my friend to lodge here too. My friend is one 

 that would fain be a Brother of the Angle ; he hath been an 

 Angler but this day, and I have taught him how to catch a 

 Chub by daping with a Grashopper, and the Chub he caught 

 was a lusty one of nineteen inches long. But pray, Brother 

 Peter, who is your companion? 



PETER. Brother Piscator, my friend is an honest Country- 

 man, and his name is Coridon, and he is a downright witty 

 companion, that met me here purposely to be pleasant and 

 eat a Trout, and I have not yet wetted my line since we met 

 together ; but I hope to fit him with a Trout for his breakfast, 

 for I '11 be early up. 



Pise. Nay Brother you shall not stay so long : for look 

 you here is a Trout will fill six reasonable bellies. Come 

 Hostess, dress it presently, and get us what other meat the 

 house will afford, and give us some of your best Barley-wine, 

 the good liquor that our honest forefathers did use to drink 

 of ; the drink which preserved their health and made them live 

 so long, and to do so many good deeds. 



PET. O' my word this Trout is perfect in season. Come, 

 I thank you, and here is a hearty draught to you, and to all 

 the Brothers of the Angle wheresoever they be, and to my 

 young brother's good fortune to-morrow: I will furnish him 



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