*The Complete Angler. 



then mix with it Virgins-wax and 



clarified honey, and work them to- 

 gether with your hands before the 

 fire; then make th^fe into balls, and 

 it will keep all th<? veer. 



And if you fifh for a Carp with 

 Gentles, then put upon your hook a 

 Imall piece of Scarlet about this big- 

 11 eft g , it being foked in, or an- 

 nointed with Oyl of Peter y called by 

 some, Oylof the Rock \ and if your 

 Gentles be put two or three dayes 

 "before into a box or horn anointed 

 with Honey, and fo put upon y our 

 liook, as to preferve them to be li- 

 ving , you are as like to kill this 

 craftie fifh this way as any other ; 

 but ftill as yoa are fifhing, chaw a 

 little white or brown bread in your 

 mouth, and caft it into the Pond a- 

 foout the place where your flote 

 fwims. Other baits there be, but 

 thefe with diligence , and patient 

 watchfulnefs, will do it as well as 

 any as I have ever pradlifed , or 



heard 



