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Fish. Take the blood of a black goat, mixed 

 with wheat flour and lees of wine, make it into 

 a paste, and throw it into the water a little be- 

 fore you fish. 



To catch Fish. 



Take coculus indicus, and some wheat flour, and 

 with sweet wine, milk or mead, make a stiff paste, 

 then make pellets, and throw them where fish are, 

 and you may take them with your hands. Or 

 take assafoetida, flour, milk, and honey, make it 

 into a paste, and bait your hook with it. 

 To take Stock-Fish. 



Take green moss from the roots, boil it in oil, 

 and make it into baits. 



Fish. 



Take hartwort and unslacked lime beat small, 

 throw it into the water when calm; and it will 

 make them drunk, so that you may take them 

 with your hands. 



Fish. Take elder leaves, savory, and thyme, 

 of each a like quantity, then take ox or sheep's 

 suet, and lees of wine; beat them in a mortar, and 

 throw little pieces into the water an hour before 

 you fish. 



Fish. Take coculus indicus, old cheese, cummin 

 seed, and wheat flour: make a paste "with brandy, 

 and throw pieces in as big as a pea, and they that 

 eat it you may take. 



7o take Fish with your hand. 



Get nettles and cinquefoil, stamp them together 

 with house-leek juice: then take them in your 

 hand and stir in the water, and fish will come to 

 you. Or take coculus indicus, soft cheese, honey, 

 and crumbs of white bread: make it into paste, and 

 throw it into the water. 



