66 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. PART i. 



But 'tis not so 

 With those that go 

 Through frost and snow, 

 As all men know, 

 And carry the milking-pail." 



PlSC. Well sung, good woman ; I thank you. I'll give you 

 another dish of fish one of these days, and then beg another 

 song of you. Come, scholar, let Maudlin alone ; do not you 

 offer to spoil her voice. Look, yonder comes mine hostess, to 

 call us to supper. How now ? Is my brother Peter come ? 



HOST. Yes, and a friend with him ; they are both glad to hear 

 that you are in these parts, and long to see you^ and long to be 

 at supper, for they be very hungry. 



CHAPTER V. 



MORE DIRECTIONS HOW TO FISH FOR, AND HOW TO MAKE 

 FOR THE TROUT AN ARTIFICIAL MINNOW AND FLIES ; 

 WITH SOME MERRIMENT. 



PlSC. Well met, brother Peter: I heard you and a friend 

 would lodge here to-night, and that hath made me to bring my 

 friend to lodge here too. My friend is one that would fain be a 

 brother of the angle ; he hath been an angler but this day, and 

 I have taught him how to catch a chub by dapping with a grass-" 

 hopper, and the chub that he caught was a lusty one of nineteen 

 inches long. But pray, brother Peter, who is your companion ? 



PETER. Brother Piscator, my friend is an honest country- 

 man, and his name is Coridon, and he is a downright witty 

 companion, that met me here purposely to be pleasant and eat 

 a trout, and I have not yet wetted my line since we met 

 together; but I hope to fit him with a trout for his breakfast, 

 for I'll be early up. 



PlSC. Nay, brother, you shall not stay so long: for, look you, 

 here is a trout will fill six reasonable bellies. 



