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Fish. Get sheep suet and garlick, mix it with 

 wheat or barley flour, and with wine make it in- 

 to a paste; throw it into the water, and you may 

 take fish with your hands. Some take elder-leaves, 

 wild marjoram, and thyme, all dried, and mix 

 sheep's blood with them: then dry them in an 

 oven, and throw lumps into the water. 



Fish. Get unslacked lime, and mingle it with 

 birthwort beat small, and cast into the water, the 

 fish will greedily eat it, and turn on their backs, 

 but they are not the worse for eating. Or with 

 the juice of dragon-wort anoint your hands, and 

 they will come to it. Or oil of camomile put to 

 your bait does it. 



Fish. Get a quarter of an ounce of oriental 

 berries, cummin seed, and aqua vita, each a sixth 

 part of an ounce, cheese an ounce, wheat meal 

 three ounces, make little pellets and throw where 

 the fish are. 



BIRD LIME. 



Stuff prepared after different ways: the com- 

 mon method is to peel a good quantity of holly 

 bark about Midsummer, fill a vessel with it, put 

 spring water to it; boil till the gray and white 

 bark arise from the green, which will require 

 twelve hours boiling: then take it off the fire, 

 drain the water well from it, separate the barks, 

 lay the green bark on the ground in some cool 

 cellar, covered with any green rank weeds, such 

 as dock thistles, hemlock, &c. to a good thickness: 

 let it lie so fourteen days, by which time it will be 

 a perfect mucilage; then pound it well in a stone 

 mortar till it becomes a tough p^te, and that none 

 of the bark be discernible: next after wash it 

 well in some running stream, as long as you per- 



