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worm, the tag-tail, the flag-ivorm, 

 the dock-worm, the oake-worm , the 

 gilt-tail , and too many to name, 

 even as many forts, as fome think 

 there be of feverall kinds of birds in 

 the air : of which I fhall fay no 

 more, but tell you, that what worms 

 foever you fifh with, are the better 

 for being long kept before they be 

 ufed ; and in cafe you have not been 

 ib provident, then the way tocleanfe 

 and fcoure them quickly, is to put 

 them all night in water, if they be 

 Lob-worms, and then put them in- 

 to your bag with fennel: but you 

 muft not put your Brandling above 

 an hour in water, and then put them 

 into fennel for fudden ufe : but if 

 you have time, and purpofe to keep 

 them long, then they be beft pre- 

 ferved in an earthen pot with good 

 rtore of moffe, which is to be frefli 

 every week or eight dayes ; or at 

 leaft taken from them, and clean 

 tvafh'd, and wrung betwixt your 



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