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every moneth, begining with a dark white, and so 

 grow to a yellow, the form cannot be well put on a 

 paper, as it may be taught by slight : yet it will be 

 like this forme. [Here Lawson gives a figure.] 



The head is of black silk or haire, the wings of the 

 feathers of a mallart, teele, or pickled hen-w r ing. 

 The body of Crewell according to the moneth for 

 colour, and run about with a black haire : all fastened 

 at the taile, with the thred that fastened the hooke. 

 You must fish in, or hard by the stream and have 

 a quick hand and a ready eye, and a nimble rod, 

 strike with him, or you lose him. If the winde be 

 rough and trouble the crust of the water, he will take 

 it in the plaine deeps, and then, and there commonly 

 the greatest will rise. When you have hookt him, 

 give him leave, keeping your line streight, and hold 

 him from roots and he will tire himself. This is the 

 chief pleasure of angling. This flie and two linkes 

 among wood or close by a bush, moved in the crust 

 of the water, is deadly in an evening, if you come 

 close. This is called bushing for trouts. 



In reference to the mysterious ointment mentioned 

 at the end of The Secrets of Angling, he says that 

 "that which kills the oake, I conjecture to be ivy, 

 till I change my minde. This excellent receipt 

 divers anglers can tell where you may buy them." 



Lawson concludes his book by giving the angler 

 several hints, and among them the following : 



Barre netting, and night hooking, where you love 

 Angling. . 



He that is more greedy of fish than sport, let him 

 have three or four angles fitted & baited, and laid 

 in several pooles, you shall sometime have them 

 all sped at once. 



