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Unequal Fate, that some are borne to be 



Fearfull and milde, and for the rest a pray, 



And others are ordain'd to live more free, 



Without controule or danger anyway : 



So do the Foxe the Lambe destroy we see, 



The Lyon fierce, the Bever, Roe, or Gray, 



The Hauke, the foule, the greater wrong the lesse, 

 The lofty proud, the lowly poore oppresse. 



FOR THE PIKE OR PEARCH. 



Now for to take these kinde of Fish with all, 

 It shal be needfull to have still in store, 

 Some living baites as Bleiks y and Roches small, 

 Goodgion, or Loach, not taken long before, 

 Or yealow Frogges that in the waters craule, 

 But all alive they must be evermore : 



For as for baites that dead and dull doe lye, 



They least esteeme and set but little by. 



The other kinde that are unlike to these 

 Doe live by corne or any other seede : 

 Sometimes by crummes of bread, of paste or cheese, 

 Or grassehoppers that in greene meadows breed, 

 With brood of waspes, of hornets, doares or bees, 

 Lip berries from the bryar bush or weede, 



Bloud wormes, and snayles, or crauling I entiles small, 



And buzzing flies that on the waters fall. 



All these are good, and many others more, 

 To make fit baites to take these kinde of Fish, 

 So that some faire deepe place you feede before, 

 A day or two, with paile, with bole, or dish ; 

 And of these meats do use to throw in store, 

 Then shall you have them byte as you would wish : 



And ready sport to take your pleasure still, 



Of any sort that best you like to kill. 



Having given the foregoing practical instructions 

 on ground-baiting, the author tells the angler how to 



