CHAP. xvii. THE FIFTH DAY. 



discourse ; but there is a mysterious knack, which, though it be 

 much easier than the philosopher's stone, yet it is not attain- 

 able~15y common capacities, or else lies locked up in the brain 

 or"breast of some chymical man, that, like the Rosicrucians, 

 wTTT~no7 yef reveal it. But let me nevertheless tell you, that 

 camphor, puTwitlTrnoss into your worm-bag with your worms, 

 makes them, if many anglers be not very much mistaken, a 

 tempting bait, and the angler more fortunate. But I stepped 

 by chance into this discourse of oils and fishes smelling ; and 

 though there might be more said, both of it and of baits for 

 roach and dace and other float fish, yet I will forbear it at this 

 time, and tell you in the next place how you are to prepare 

 your tackling; concerning which I will, for sport's sake, give 

 you an old rhyme out of an old fish-book which will prove a 

 part, and but a part, of what you are to provide. 



" My rod and my line, my float and my lead, 



My hook and my plummet, my whetstone and knife, 

 My basket, my baits both living and dead, 



My net, and my meat (for that is the chief): 

 Then I must have thread, and hairs green and small, 

 With mine angling- purse and so you have all." 



But you must have all these tackling, and twice so many 

 more, with which, if you mean to be a fisher, you must store 

 yourself; and to that purpose I will go with you either to^Mr. 

 Margrave, who dwells amongst ~lheTx)oksellers in St. Paul's 



Stubs, near to the Swan in Golden 

 honest men, and will fit an angler with 



en, good master, let it be at 



, for he is nearest 

 to my dwelling ; and I pray let us meet there the ninth of May 

 next, about two of the clock, and I'll want nothing that a fisher 

 should be furnished with. 



PiSC. Well, and I'll not fail you (God willing) at the time and 

 place appointed. 



VEN. I thank you, good master, and I will not fail you : and, 

 good master, tell me what baits more you remember, for it will 



