168 The Complete Angler. 



difcourfing either of the nature or 

 the breeding of this Carp, 



or of any more circumftances con- 

 cerning him, but yet I fhall remem- 

 ber you of what I told you before, 

 that he is a very fub tie fifh and hard 

 to be caught. 



And my fir ft direction is, that if 

 you will fifh for a CWr/>,youmuft put 

 on a very large meafure of patience, 

 efpecially to fifh for a River Carp : 

 I have knowne a very good Fifher 



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