lo8 The Complete Angler. 



your promifed direction for ma- 

 king and ordering my Artificial! 



flye. 



Fife. My honeft Scholer, I will 

 do it, for it is a debt due unto you, 

 by my promife : and becaufe you 

 fhall not think your felf more enga- 

 ged to me then indeed you really 

 are, therefore I will tell you freely,, 

 I find Mr. Thomas Barker (a Gentle- 

 man that has fpent much time and 

 money in Angling) deal fo judicial- 

 ly and freely in a little book of his 

 ofAngling,and efpecially of making 

 and Angling with &fye for a Trout, 

 that I will give you his very diredi- 

 ons without much variation, which 

 fhal follow. 



Let your rod be light, and very 

 gentle, I think the beft are of two 

 pieces; the line fhould not exceed, e- 

 Ipecially for three or four links to- 

 wards the hook) I fay, not ex- 

 ceed 



