The Complete Angler. 



mers evening, with a hazle top about 

 five or fix foot long, and a line twice 

 the length of the Rod. I have 

 heard Sir Henry Wotton fay, that 

 there be many that in Italy will catch 

 Swallows fo ? or eipecially Martins 

 (the Bird-Angler Handing on the 

 top of a Steeple to do it, and with a 

 line twice fo long, as I have fpoke 

 of) and let me tell you, Scholer,that 

 both Martins and Blekes be moft ex- 

 cellent meat. 



I might now tell you how to 

 catch Roc A zndDace, and fome other 

 fifh of little note,that I have not yet 

 fpoke of; but you fee we are almoft 

 atour lodging^ ndindeed if we were 

 not, I wouid omit to give you any 

 directions concerning them, or how 

 to fiih for them, not but that they 

 be both good fi(h ^being in feafon) 

 and efpeciallv to fome palates, and 

 they alfo make the Angler good 

 iport (and you know the Hunter 

 iayes, there is mere fport in hunting 



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