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euer uncurteys, for contrary to his promyse he lettyd 

 the fissher as oftyn as he shuld fissh, and withdrewe 

 ye fisshes from him and sayd. faders and worshipftill 

 senyours be ye ware of that deceyuar for he 

 deceyuyd me, & cut of my tayle, and so shall he 

 serue you if ye be not ware. And, yf ye beleue not 

 me, beleue his workis that apere upon me. And 

 thus saynge the fissh shewyd them his tayle that was 

 cut. Wherfor the fisshes abhorryd ye fyssher and 

 fled from him in al possible haste. The fissher usid 

 no more fysshinge, wherfore he leuyd in great 

 pouerte. Of fortune it happid so that a longe while 

 aftir the fissher cawght agayne the same fissh emonge 

 othir. And whan he knew him he kylled him cruelly 

 and sayde 



He that hath a good turn and is uncurteys agayn 

 It is veray rightfull that he be therfore slayne. 



Among many other woodcuts in this book, there 

 is the earliest known illustration of an angler fishing 

 with a float. A photographic reproduction of this 

 illustration, taken from a copy of the first edition 

 of this work in the Bodleian Library, is given. 

 Beneath this woodcut the following didactic dialogue 

 appears : 



OF A LUCE AND A TENCHE (Dialogo xliiii.) 



Vppon a tyme ther was a Fissher that fisshed, 

 and hydde his hookis sotellye, and shewid unto the 

 fissh the delycyows bayte. A Luce and a Tenche 

 beholdynge the pleasaunte bayte, desyrid it greatlye. 

 But the Luce was wytty, and sayd to the Tenche. 

 This mete semyth very good and delicate, but 

 neuerthelesse I trowe that it be putte here to 



