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with a rod, if you will furnish him with the rest of the tackling ; 

 we will set him up and make him a fisher. 



And I will tell him one thing for his encouragement, that 

 his fortune hath made him happy to be Scholar to such a 

 Master ; a Master that knows as much both of the nature and 

 breeding of fish as any man : and can also tell him as well how 

 to catch and cook them, from the Minnow to the Salmon, as 

 any that I ever met withal. 



Pise. Trust me, Brother Peter, I find my Scholar to be 

 so suitable to my own humour, which is to be free, and pleasant, 

 and civilly merry, that my resolution is to hide nothing that 

 I know from him. Believe me, Scholar, this is my resolution ; 

 and so here's to you a hearty draught, and to all that love 

 us, and the honest Art of Angling. 



VEN. Trust me, good Master, you shall not sow your seed 

 in barren ground, for I hope to return you an increase answer- 

 able to your hopes ; but however you shall find me obedient,, 

 and thankful, and serviceable to my best ability. 



Pise. 'Tis enough, honest Scholar, come let's to supper. 

 Come my friend Coridon, this Trout looks lovely, it was 

 twenty-two inches when it was taken, and the belly of it 

 looked some part of it as yellow as a marigold, and part of 

 it as white as a lily, and yet methinks it looks better in this 

 good sauce. 



CORIDON. Indeed honest friend, it looks well, and tastes 

 well, I thank you for it, and so doth my friend Peter, or else 

 he is to blame. 



PET. Yes, and so I do, we all thank you, and when we 

 have supped, I will get my friend Coridon to sing you a song 

 for requital. 



COR. I will sing a song, if any body will sing another; 

 else, to be plain with you, I will sing none : I am none of 

 those that sing for meat, but for company : I say, * 'Tis merry 

 in hall, when men sing all.' 



Pise. I '11 promise you I '11 sing a song that was lately 

 made at my request, by Mr. William Basse, one that hath 

 made the choice songs of the ' Hunter in his career,' and of 

 * Tom of Bedlam,' and many others of note ; and this that I will 

 sing is in praise of Angling. 

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