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is made of dun Wooll, and his wings of the male 

 of a Partridge. 



Now for the shapes, and proportions of these flies, 

 it is impossible to describe them without paynting, 

 therefore you shall take of these severall flies alive, 

 and laying them before you, try how neere your Art 

 can come unto nature by an equall shape, and 

 mixture of colours; and when you have made them, 

 you may keep them in close boxes uncrushed, and 

 they will serve you many yeeres. 



Methods for preparing a variety of pastes for 

 bottom-fishing are described : 



1. Made from Bean flower, rabbit's fat or cat's fat, 

 virgin wax, sheep's suet, and honey. These in- 

 gredients pounded in a mortar will make a paste 

 which will keep for a year. 



2. Fat of a sheep's kidney, new cheese, wheat 

 flour, and honey. 



3. Sheep's blood, honey, fresh cheese, and grated 

 crumbs of white bread. These ingredients are to be 

 well kneaded together, and a small pellet of the paste 

 thrown in when fishing. 



4. Bread crumbs and ripe cherries with the stones 

 removed. 



Markham concludes his list of pastes, by giving 

 the following solution of the cryptic rhyme at the 

 end of the Secrets of Angling: 



Lastly, if you take Venus Turpentine, some time 

 washt, and beaten, and mixt it with as much life 

 Honey, and then dissolve them in Oyle of Polypody, 

 and so keepe them in a close glasse : then when you 



