MORE DIRECTIONS 



Pise. My honest Scholar, it is now past five of the clock, 

 we will fish till nine, and then go to breakfast ? go you to yonder 

 sycamore-tree, and hide your bottle of drink under the hollow 

 root of it : for about that time, and in that place, we will make 

 a brave breakfast with a piece of powdered beef, and a radish 

 or two that I have in my fish-bag ; we shall, I warrant you, 

 make a good, honest, wholesome, hungry breakfast, and I will 

 then give you direction for the making and using of your flies : 

 and in the mean time there is your rod and line, and my advice 

 is, that you fish as you see me do, and let 's try which can catch 

 the first fish. 



VEN. I thank you, Master, I will observe and practise your 

 directions, as far as I am able. 



Pise. Look you, Scholar, you see I have hold of a good 

 fish : I now see it is a Trout, I pray put that net under him, 

 and touch not my line, for if you do, then we break all. Well 

 done Scholar, I thank you. 



Now for another. Trust me I have another bite : come 

 Scholar, come lay down your rod, and help me to land this as 

 you did the other. So, now we shall be sure to have a good 

 dish of fish to supper. 



VEN. I am glad of that ; but I have no fortune : sure, 

 Master, your's is a better rod, and better tackling. 



Pise. Nay, then take mine, and I will fish with your's. 

 Look you, Scholar, I have another ; come, do as you did before. 

 And now I have a bite at another : Oh me ! he has broke all ; 

 there 's half a line and a good hook lost. 



VEN. Ay, and a good Trout too. 



Pise. Nay, the Trout is not lost, for pray take notice, no 

 man can lose what he never had. 



VEN. Master, I can neither catch with the first nor second 

 angle : I have no fortune. 



Pise. Look you, Scholar, I have yet another : and now 

 having caught three brace of Trouts, I will tell you a short tale 

 as we walk towards our breakfast : a scholar, a preacher I 

 should say, that was to preach to procure the approbation of a 

 parish, that he might be their lecturer, had got from his fellow- 

 pupil the copy of a sermon that was first preached with great 

 commendation by him that composed it ; and though the 



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