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your Line, or not fifhing even to a 

 foot in a right place, makes you lofe 

 your labour: and you are to knoWj, 

 that though you have my Fiddle, 

 that is,my very Rod and Tacklings 

 with which you fee I catch fifh, yet 

 you have not my Fiddle ftick, that 

 is,skill to know how to carry your 

 hand and line ; and this muft be 

 taught you(for you are to remember 

 I told you Angling is an Art) either 

 by pradice,or a long obfervation,or 

 both. 



But now lets fay Grace, and fall 

 to Breakfaft; what fay you Scholer, 

 to the providence of an old Angler? 

 Does not this meat tafte well ? and 

 was not this place well chofen to eat 

 it? for this Sycamore tree will fhade 

 us from the Suns heat. 



Viat. All excellent good,Mafler, 

 and my ftomack excellent too ; I 

 have been at many coftly Dinners 

 that have not afforded me half this 

 content : and now good Mafter,to 



your 



