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The black Fly in season in May, made of black 

 Wooll, and wrapt about with Peacock's Tail : his 

 Wings the Feather of the Wing of a brown Capon, 

 with the blew Feathers in his Head. 



In June the said yellow Fly is in season, made of 

 black Wooll with a yellow List on either side, the 

 Wings of a Buzzard, bound with broken Hemp. 



Also the Moorish Fly in season in June, made of 

 duskish Wooll, the Wings the black Feathers of a 

 Mall Drake. 



Also in the middle of June, the Taring Fly made 

 of Bear's Wooll, the Wings made contrary one 

 against the other of the whitish Feathers of a Mall 

 Drake. 



In July the Wasp Fly in season, made of black 

 Wooll, wrapt about with yellow Silk ; the Wings 

 made of the feathers of a Buzzard or Drak. 



The Shell Fly good in the middle of June, made 

 with greenish Wool], wrapt about with Pearls of a 

 Peacock's Tail, the Wings made of a Buzzard's 

 Feathers. 



The dark Drake Fly, made of black Wooll, wrapt 

 about with black Silk, in season in August ; the 

 Wings made of the Feathers of a Mall Drake with 

 a black Head. 



The May Fly, made of greenish Colour Cruel or 

 Willow Colour, and darken it in most Places with 

 wax Silk or ribb'd with a black Hair, or some of 

 them ribb'd with a Silver Thread, and such Wings 

 for the Colour, as you see the Fly to have at that 

 Season. 



The Oak Fly, the Body made of Orange paring 

 and black Cruel ; the Wings, the brown of a Mallard's 

 Feathers. 



Blome's instructions, for making carp hungry by 

 purging them with Socatrine aloes, the method of 

 taking fish in the hands, and the method of walking 



