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fervations and directions concerning 

 the Pearcb, for they fay he is both a 

 very good and a bold biting filh, 

 and I would faine learne to fifh for 

 him. 



Pifc. You fay true, Scholer, the 

 Pearcb is a very good, and a very 

 bold biting fifh, he is one of the 

 fifties of prey, that, like the Pike and 

 Trout y carries his teeth in his mouth, 

 not in his throat, and dare venture 

 to kill and devour another fi(h; this 

 fifh, and the Pike are (fayes Gefner) 

 the beft of frefh water fifh; he 

 Spawns but once a year, and is by 

 Phyficians held very nutritive; yet 

 by many to be hard of digeftion : 

 They abound more in the River 

 Poe, and in England, (fayes Rande- 

 litius] then other parts, and have in 

 their brain a ftone, which is in for- 

 rain parts fold by Apothecaries, be- 

 ing there noted to be very medicina- 

 ble againft the ftone in the reins : 

 Thefe be a part of the commendati- 

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