CHAP. v. THE FOURTH DAY. 81 



make a good, honest, wholesome, hungry breakfast, and I will 

 then give you direction for the making and using of your flies ; 

 and in the meantime there is your rod, and line, and my advice 

 is, that you fish as you see me do, and let's try which can catch 

 the first fish. 



VEN. I thank you, master, I will observe and practise your 

 direction as far as I am able. 



PlSC. Look you, scholar, you see I have hold of a good fish : 

 I now see it is a trout, I pray put that net under him, and touch 

 not my line, for if you do, then we break all. Well done, 

 scholar, I thank you. 



Now for another. Trust me, I have another bite: come, 

 scholar, come lay down your rod, and help me to land this as 

 you did the other. So now we shall be sure to have a good 

 dish for supper. 



VEN. I am glad of that ; bujLlJia^e^no fortune surc^-master, 

 voursos a better^ rod HTTJ letter taf4-Hn^ 



PlSC. Nay, theu^'uike mine, and I will "fish with yours. 

 Look you, scholar, I have another. Come, do as you did 

 before. And now I have a bite at another. Oh me ! he has 

 broke all : there's half a line and a good hook lost. 

 , and a good trout too. 



j the troutjsjiot lost ; for pray take notice, nojnan 

 can lose what he never had. j]V 



"VENTlviaite"r, I can neitliffcatch with the first nor second 

 angle : T hnvr no fortune 



PlSC. Look you, scholar, I have yet another. And now, 

 having caught three brace of trouts, I will tell you a short tale 

 as we walk towards our breakfast. A scholar, a preacher I 

 should say, that^w^jto__rjreach to procure the approbation of a 

 ^ bethelr lecturer, had got from his fellow 



^ a sermon that was first preached with great 

 recommendation by him that composed it: and though the 

 boYrowef^ot~Tt~prr^5^Qd it, wol-cHor word, as it was at first T yet 

 it was utterly disliked as it was preached by the second to^his 

 congregation : which the sermon-borrower complained of to the 

 lender of it ; and thus was answered : " I lent you, indeed, my 



