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crafte here to fore auayllyth you not to 

 purpofe. For ye can not brynge a hoke 

 in to a fyffhe mouth wythout a bayte, 

 whyche baytes for euery manere of fyffhe 

 as for euery moneth here followyth in this 

 wyfe. 



For by caufe that the famon is the mooft 

 ftately fyffhe that ony man maye angle to 

 in frefh water, there fore I purpofe to 

 begyn at hym. 



The famon is a gentyll fyffhe : but he is 

 comborous for to take. For comynly he 

 is but in depe places in grete ryuers : and 

 for the more parte he holdyth the myddys 

 of it : that a man maye not come at hym. 

 And he is in feafon from Marche vnto My- 

 ghelmas. In whyche feafon ye fhall angle 

 to hym wyth thefe baytes whan ye fhall 

 gete theym. Fyrfte wyth a redde worme 

 in the begynynge and endynge of the fea- 



