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Pise. Away, away ! you are a doctor at it ; "but I will not 

 commend you too much, lest I make you proud. Come, put 

 it on, and you shall now go downward to some streams be- 

 twixt the rocks below the little foot-bridge you see there, and 

 try your fortune. Take heed of slipping into the water as 

 you follow rne under this rock : so, now you are over, and now 

 throw in. 



YIAT. This is a fine stream indeed : there's one ! I have 

 him. 



Pise. And a precious catch you have of him : pull him out ! 

 I see you have a tender hand : this is a diminutive gentleman, 

 e'en throw him in again, and let him grow till he be more 

 worthy your anger.* 



VIAT. Pardon me, sir, all's fish that comes to the hook with 

 me now. Another. 



Pise. And of the same standing. 



VIAT. I see I shall have good sport now : another ! and a 

 grayling. Why, you have fish here at will. 



Pise. Come, come, cross the bridge, and go down the 

 other side lower, where you will find finer streams and better 

 sport, I hope than this. Look you, sir, here is a fine stream 

 now, you have length enough, stand a little further off, let 

 me entreat you, and do but fish this stream like an artist, and 

 peradventure a good fish may fall to your share. How now ! 

 what ! is all gone ? 



YIAT. No, but I touched him ; but that was a fish worth 

 taking. 



Pise. Why now, let me tell you, you lost that fish by your 

 own fault, and through your own eagerness and haste ; for 

 you are never to offer to strike a good fish, if he do not strike 

 himself, till you first see him turn his head after he has taken 

 your fly, and then you can never strain your tackle in the 

 striking, if you strike with any manner of moderation. t 

 Come, throw in once again, and fish me this stream by inches ; 

 for I assure you here are very good fish ; both trout and gray- 

 ling lie here ; and at that great stone on the other side, it is 

 ten to one a good trout gives you the meeting. 



^_ i ^ He contemns 



catchin 



sees 



keeping 



comes to the hook now." En. 



f Tray, reader, attend to this valuable counsel. 



