142 The Complete Angler. 



Patches in which they fo much 

 pride themfelves in this age. And 

 fo I fhall leave them and proceed 

 to fome Obfervations of the 

 Pike. 



CHAP. VII. 



Fife. -*r T is not to be doubted but 

 that the Luce, orPikrell, 

 JL or Pike breeds by Spaw- 

 ning; and yet Gefner fayes, that 

 fome of them breed, where none e- 

 verwas, out of a weed called Pik- 

 rell-weed, and other glutinous mat- 

 ter, which with the help of the Suns 

 heat proves in fome particular ponds 

 (apted by nature for it) to become 

 Pikes. 



in his Hi- Sir Francis Bacon cbferves theP/<? 



ftory of to be the longeft lived of any frelh 



Lite and r - & , - 1 . J. r . 



Death, water fim, and yet that his life is 



not 



