THE SECOND DAY. 

 CHAPTER VI. 



PlSCATOR. 



OOY ! come, give me my dubbing-bag here presently. And 

 *-' now, Sir, since I find you so honest a man, I will make 

 no scruple to lay open my treasure before you. 



VIAT. Did ever any one see the like ! What a heap of 

 trumpery is here ! certainly never an Angler in Europe has his 

 shop half so well furnished as you have. 



Pise. You, perhaps, may think now that I rake together 

 this trumpery, as you call it, for show only ; to the end that 

 such as see it, which are not many I assure you, may think me 

 a great master in the art of Angling ; but let me tell you here 

 are some colors, as contemptible as they seem here, that are 

 very hard to be got ; and scarce any one of them, which, if it 

 should be lost, I should not miss, and be concerned about the 

 loss of it too, once in the year. But look you, Sir, amongst 

 all these I will choose out these two colors only, of which, this 

 is bear's hair, this darker, no great matter what : but I am 

 sure I have killed a great deal of fish with it ; and with one or 

 both of these, you shall take Trout or Grayling this very day, 

 notwithstanding all disadvantages, or my art shall fail me. 



VIAT. You promise comfortably, and I have a great deal of 

 reason to believe everything you say ; but I wish the fly were 

 made, that we were at it. 



Pise. That will not be long in doing; and pray observe 

 then. You see first how I hold my hook, and thus I begin. 

 Look you, here are my first two or three whips about the bare 



