MORE DIRECTIONS 



And now, good Master, proceed to your promised direction 

 for making and ordering my artificial fly. 



Pise. My honest Scholar, I will do it, for it is a debt due 

 unto you by my promise ; and because you shall not think 

 yourself more engaged to me than indeed you really are, I will 

 freely give you such directions as were lately given to me by 

 an ingenuous Brother of the Angle, an honest man, and a most 

 excellent fly-fisher. 



You are to note, that there are twelve kinds of artificial 

 made-flies to angle with upon the top of the water : note by 

 the way, that the fittest season of using these, is a blustering 

 windy day, when the waters are so troubled that the natural fly 

 cannot be seen, or rest upon them. The first is the Dun-fly in 

 March, the body is made of dun wool, the wings of the partridge's 

 feathers. The second is another Dun-fly, the body of black 

 wool, and the wings made of the black-drake's feathers, and of 

 the feathers under his tail. The third is the Stone-fly in April, 

 the body is made of black wool, made yellow under the wings, 

 and under the tail, and so made with wings of the drake. The 

 fourth is the Ruddy-fly in the beginning of May, the body made 

 of red wool wrapt about with black silk, and the feathers are 

 the wings of the drake ; with the feathers of a red capon also, 

 which hang dangling on his sides next to the tail. The fifth is 

 the Yellow or Greenish-fly, in May likewise, the body made of 

 yellow wool, and the wings made of the red cock's hackle or 

 tail. The sixth is the Black-fly, in May also, the body made of 

 black wool, and lapped about with the herl of a peacock's tail ; 

 the wings are made of the wings of a brown capon with his 

 blue feathers in his head. The seventh is the Sad-yellow-fly in 

 June, the body is made of black wool, with a yellow list on 

 either side, and the wings taken off the wings of a buzzard, 

 bound with black braked hemp. The eighth is the Moorish-fly, 

 made with the body of duskish wool, and the wings made of 

 the blackish mail of the drake. The ninth is the Tawny-fly, 

 good until the middle of June ; the body made of tawny wool, 

 the wings made contrary one against the other, made of the 

 whitish mail of the wild-drake. The tenth is the Wasp-fly, in 

 July, the body made of black wool, lapped about with yellow silk, 

 the wings made of the feathers of the drake, or of the buzzard. 



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