CHAP. v. THE FOURTH DAY. 83 



PiSC. My honest scholar, I will do it ; for it is a debt due 

 unto you by my promise. And because you shall not think 

 yourself more engaged to me than indeed you really are, I will 

 freely give you such directions as were lately given to me by an 

 ingenious brother of the angle, an honest man and a most 

 excellent fly-fisher. 



You are to note, that there are twelve kinds of artificially made 

 flies to angle with on the top of the water. Note, by the way, 

 that the fittest season of using these is a blustering windy day, 

 when the waters are so troubled that the natural fly cannot be 

 seen, or rest upon them. The first is the dun-fly, in March : the 

 body is made of dun wool ; the wings, of the partridge's feathers. 

 The second is another dun-fly : the body of black wool ; and the 

 wings made of the black drake's feathers, and of the feathers 

 under his tail. The third is the stone-fly, in April : the body is 

 made of black wool ; made yellb'w under the wings and under 

 the tail, and so made with the wings of the drake. The fourth 

 is the ruddy fly^ in the beginning of May : the body made of 

 red wool, wrapt about with black silk; and the feathers are the 

 wings of the drake: with the feathers of a red capon also, which 

 hangs dangling on his sides next to the tail. The fifth is the 

 yellow or greenish fly, in May likewise: the body made of 

 yellow wool ; and the wings made of the red cock's hackle or 

 tail. The sixth is the black-fly, in May also : the body made of 

 black wool, and lapped about with the herle of a peacock's tail ; 

 the wings are made of the wings of a.b'rown capon, with his 

 blue feathers in his head. The seventh is the sad yellow-fly, in 

 June : the body is made of black wool, with a yellow list on 

 either side; and the wings taken off the wings of a buzzard, 

 bound with black braked hemp. The eighth is the moorish-fly : 

 made with the body of duskish wool ; and the wings made of 

 the blackish mail of the drake. The ninth is the tawny-fly, 

 good until the middle of June : the body made of tawny wool, 

 the wings made contrary, one against the other, made of the 

 whitish mail of the wild drake. The tenth is the wasp-fly, in 

 July; the body made of black wool, lapped about with yellow 

 silk; the wings made of the feathers of the drake, or of the 



