82 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. TART i. 



fiddle, but not my fiddlestick ; for_yoii are to know that_every 

 one cannot make music with my words, which are fitted to my 

 own mouth." And so, my scholar, you are to know, that as the 

 ill pronunciation or il] printing ^ f wm-Hc jp a q 0r m nn ^ppils \^ 

 soothe ill carriage ofvour line, or not fishing even to a foot in a 

 right place, makes vou lose your labour: and you are to know. 

 that though you_J-mvp ijr^firlrllp that is, my very ipd and 

 tacklings with which you see" 1 catch fish 3 y P f you_frave_ not 

 s, you yet have not skill to know how to 



carry your handand line, or how 1 to guide it to a righTjaJace : 

 and tliis'musrbejau.ght you : lor you are to remember, I told 

 is an art, either by practice or a long observation, 



th. But take this for a rule, When you fish lor a trout with 

 a worm, let your line have so much, and not more lead than will 

 fit the stream in which you fish ; that is to say, more in a great 

 troublesome stream than in a smaller that is quieter; as near as 

 may be, so much as will sink the bait to the bottom, and keep 

 it still in motion, and not more ^-u^ 



But ^ipw lej^s_jsay_g[race and fall_to_breakfast : what say 

 yog, scholar, to the providence :_of_an old angler? Does not 

 this meat taste well? and was not this place well chosen to 

 eat it ? for this sycamore tree will shade us from the sun's heat. 



VEN. All excellent good, and my stomach excellent good 

 too. And now I remember and find that true which devout 

 Lessius says : " "ftfcf^ po^r imij and those that jast of^en, 

 MVP in'Hi mnrP4>lca5iTTe in eating than rich men and gluttons, 

 tbAt alwa^sjeed before^their_st^oniacbg Q ^mpty r> thiir last 

 meat, and call for morej for by that means they rob themselves 

 of that pleasure that hunger brings to poor men." And I do 

 seriously approve of that saying of yours, " that you would rather 

 be a civil, well-governed, well-grounded, temperate, poor angler 

 thartlTcJTunken lord? But I hope there is none such ; However, 

 I am certain of this, thaFT~TTkve~^5ecTT jaj[ very many^"costly 

 dinners that have not afforded me half the content that this has 

 done, for which I thank God and you. 



And now, good master, proceed to your promised direction for 

 making and ordering- my artificial fly. 



