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pointed, heated again, and bent to a shape of which 

 an illustration is given. 



The lines must vary in strength from a single 

 hair for a minnow to fifteen hairs for a salmon ; but 

 angle " for the pyke wyth a chalke lyne made browne 

 with your browne colour aforsayd: armyd with a 

 wyre." 



The lines must be plumbed with "lede," and the 

 leads must be "rounde & smothe that they stycke 

 not on stonys or on wedys." 



The floats are to be made from a fair cork that 

 is clean and without many holes ; they are to be 

 bored with a hot iron and a quill inserted in the 

 hole thus made. An illustration is given of five 

 pear-shaped floats of different sizes. 



Having completed her description of the " harnays," 

 she proceeds to relate " in what place of the water 

 ye shall angle." 



In a pool there is not " grete choyse of ony places. 

 For it is but a pryson to fysshe, and they lyue for 

 the more parte in hungre lyke prisoners : and ther- 

 fore it is the lesse masttry to take theym. 



" But in a ryuer ye shall angle in euery place 

 where it is depe and clere by the grounde : as 

 grauell or claye wythout mudde or wedys. And 

 in especyall yf that there be a manere of whyrlynge 

 of water or a couert . . . And it is good for to angle 

 where as the water restyth by the banke : and where 

 the streme rennyth nyghe there by." 



It is unnecessary to quote the learned dame's 



