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14. When you see ant-flies in greatest plenty, go 

 to the ant-hills where they breed, take a great handful 

 of the earth, with as much of the roots of the grass 

 growing on those hills j put all into a large glass bottle, 

 then gather a pottle full of the blackest, ant-flies un- 

 bruised, put them into the bottle, or into a firkin, if you 

 would keep them long, first washed with honey, or 

 water and honey; ROACH and DACE will bite at these 

 flies under water near the ground. 



15. When you gather bobs after the plough, put 

 them into a firkin, with sufficient of the soil they were 

 bred hi, to preserve them ; stop the vessel quite close, 

 or all will spoil ; set it where neither wind nor frost may 

 offend them, and they will keep all Winter for your use. 



16. At the latter end of September, take some 

 dead carrion that hath some maggots bred in it, which 

 are beginning to creep; bury all deep in the ground, 

 that the frost kill them not, and they will serve in 

 March or April following, to use. 



17. To find the flag- worm, do thus : go to an old 

 pond, or pit, where there are store of flags, or, as some 

 call them, sedges, pull some up by the roots, then shake 



She is of body neare the bignesse of a goose ; one of her feete is web'd 

 to swim withall, the other hath talons to catch fish. It seems the fish 

 come up to her, for she cannot dive. Some likelihood there is also in a 

 paste made of Coculus Indie, Assa-Foetida, Honey and Wheat-flour; but 

 I never tried them, therefore I cannot prescribe.' 



'That which kills the oak,' is expressly said to signify 'the Ivy,' 

 edit. 1652. 



In a third, and hitherto unrecorded edition of the Secrets oj 

 Angling, it is said, 'This excellent receipt you may buy ready and truely 

 made, at the signe of the Flying Horse, an Apothecaries in Carter- Lane.' 



EDITOR, 



