The Complete Angler. 1 87 



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IT is agreed by moft men, that 

 the Ee/e is both a good and a 

 moft dain tie fifh; but moft men 

 differ about his breeding; fome 

 fay, they breed by generation as o- 

 ther fifh do; and others, that they 

 breed (as fome worms do) out of 

 the putrifaftion of the earth, and di- 

 vers other waies; thofe that denie 

 them to breed by generation, as o- 

 therfifh do, ask, if any man ever faw 

 an EeltQ have Spawn or Melt? and 

 they are anfwered, That they may 

 be as certain of their breeding, as if 

 they had feen Spawn; for they lay, 

 that they are certain that Ee/es have 

 all parts fit for generation , like o- 

 therfifh, butfofmal asnottobeea- 

 fily difcerned, by reafon of their fat- 

 nefs ; but that difcerned they may 



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