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The Roche, the Bream, the Carpe, the Chub, and Bleik, 

 With paste or Corne their greedy hunger tame, 



The Dace, the Ruffe, the Goodgion and the rest, 

 The smaller sort of crawling wormes love best. 



The Chavender and chub doe more delight 

 To feede on tender Cheese, or Cherries red, 

 Black snayles, their bellies slit to show their white, 

 Or Grashoppers that skip in every Meade ; 

 The Pearch, the Tench, and Eele, doe rather bite 

 At great red wormes, in Field or Garden bred, 



That have been scowr'd in mosse or Fenell rough, 

 To rid their filth, and make them hard and tough. 



The third book deals with " What time is best to 

 Angle in aright," first, however, proceeding 



To shew what gifts and qualities of minde 

 Belongs to him that doth this pastime love. 



The list is rather a long one, and is calculated to 

 deter a modest man from attempting to learn a 

 pastime requiring the possession of so many excellent 

 qualities. At first the author shows that expensive rods 

 and tackle do not of themselves make the angler : 



For what avails to Brooke or Lake to goe, 

 With handsome Rods and Hookes of divers sort, 

 Well twisted Lines, and many trinkets moe, 

 To finde the Fish within their watry fort, 

 If that the minde be not contented so, 

 But wants great gifts that should the rest support. 

 And make his pleasure to his thoughts agree, 

 With these therefore he must endued be. 



Then of the necessary qualities of the successful 

 angler we are told : 



The first is Faith, not wavering and unstable 

 But such as had the holy Patriarch old. 



