196 THE COMPLETE ANGLEE. 



.] 



Pise. Good-morrow, brother Peter, and the like to yon, 

 honest Coridon : come, my hostess says there is seven shillings 

 to pay : let us each man drink a pot for his morning's draught, 

 and lay down his two shillings ; that so my hostess may not 

 have occasion to repent herself of being so diligent, and using 

 us so kindly. 



PETER. The motion is liked by everybody ; and so, hostess, 

 here's your money : we anglers are all beholding to you, it 

 will not be long ere I'll see you again. And now, brother 

 Piscator, I wish you and my brother your scholar a fair day 

 and good fortune. Come, Coridon, this is our way. 



CHAPTER XVII. 



OP KOACH AND DACE, AND HOW TO FISH FOR THEM ; 

 AND OF CADIS. 



[JFiftf) Bat?.] 



YEN. Good master, as we go now to wards London, be still 

 so courteous as to give me more instructions : for I have 

 several boxes in my memory, in which I will keep them all 

 very safe, there shall not one of them be lost. 



PiSC. Well, scholar, that I will, and I will hide nothing 

 from, you that I can remember, and can think may help you 

 forward towards a perfection in this art. And because we 

 have so much time, and I have said so little of roach and 

 dace, I will give you some directions concerning them. 



Some say the Roach is so called from rutilus, which they 

 say signifies red fins. He is a fish of no great reputation for 

 his dainty taste ; and his spawn is accounted much better 

 than any part of him. And you may take notice, that as the 

 carp is accounted the water-fox for his cunning ; so the roach 

 is accounted the water-sheep, for his simplicity or foolishness. 

 It is noted, that the roach and dace recover strength, and 

 grow in season, a fortnight after spawning ; the barbel and 

 chub in a month : the trout in four months ; and the salmon 

 in the like time, if he gets into the sea, and after into fresh 

 water. 



