66 ANCIENT ANGLING AUTHORS 



the stone Fly is good in Aprill, the red Fly and the 

 yellow Fly in May, and part of June, the wasp Fly, 

 and the shell Fly in July, and the cloudy darke Fly 

 in August. 



Now for the making of these Flies, the cloudy 

 darke Fly is made of blacke wooll : dipt from 

 betweene a sheepes eares, and whipt about with 

 blacke Silke, his wings of the under mayle of the 

 Mallard, and his heade made blacke and suitable, 

 fixed upon a fine piece of corke, and folded so 

 cunningly about the hooke, that nothing may be 

 perceived but the point, and beard only. The Shell- 

 fly is made of fine greene flaxe, and the wings of the 

 wings of a Pew-glead : the Wasp-fly is made of 

 blacke wooll lapt about with yellow silke, and the 

 wings of the downe of the Buzzard ; the Tawny-fly 

 is made of tawny wooll, and the wings set one 

 contrary to another, and made of the white downe of 

 a widgen : the Moorish fly is made of fine flocks, 

 shorne from a greene gray russett, and the wings 

 of the blackest may be of a Drake : the bright 

 Yellow fly is made of yellow wooll, and his wings of 

 a red cocks yellow maine, the sad yellow fly is made 

 of blacke wooll with a twisted yellow silke, like a 

 list, whipt downe on eyther side, and the wings of 

 the wings of a Buzzard, set on with blacke thred : 

 the blacke Fly is made of blacke Wooll, and lapt 

 about with the hearle of the Peacock's tayle, his 

 wings with the browne feathers of the Mallard, and 

 some of his blew feathers on his head : the red Fly 

 is made of red Wooll, lapt about with blacke silke, 

 and the wings of the male of a Mallard, with 

 some of the red feathers of a capon, the stone Fly 

 is made of blacke wooll, made yellow under the 

 wings, and under the tayle with silke, and the wings 

 of Drake's downe : and the greater dun Fly is 

 made of blacke Wooll, and his wings of the dun 

 feathers of a Drakes tayle, the lesser dun Fly 



