The Complete Angler. 



CHAP. VIII. 



r i "^ ar P * s a 



a good, and a fubtle 



JL fifh, a fifh that hath 

 not (as it is faid) been long in Eng- 

 land, but faid to be by one Mx.Maf- 

 call (a G ntleman then living at 

 PlumftedmSuJ/ex) brought in to this 

 Nation : and for the better confir- 

 mation of this, you are to remem- 

 ber I toldyou thatGyferfayes,there 

 is not a Pike in Spain, and that ex- 

 cept the Eele, which lives longeft 

 out of the water, there is none that 

 will endure more hardnefs, or live 

 longer then a Carpvrill out of it, and 

 fo the report of his being brought 

 out of a, forrain Nation into this, is 

 the more probable. 



Carps and Loches are obferved to 



breed feveral months in one year, 



M which 



