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you are to prepare your tackling: 

 concerning which I will for iport 

 fake give you an old Rhime out of 

 an old Fi(h-book, which will be 

 a part of what you are to pro- 

 vide. 



My rod, and my tine, my flat e and my lead, 

 My bookfS my plummet, my whet Jtone & knife. 

 My Basket, my baits, both living and dead, 

 My net, and my me at, for that is the chief \ 

 Then Imujl have thred & hairs great &fmal> 

 With mine Angling pur fe, and to you have all. 



But you muft have all thefe tack- 

 ling, and twice fo many more, with 

 which, if you mean to be a fifher,you 

 muft fto r e your felfe: and to that 

 purpofe I will go with you either to 

 CharlesBrandons (neer to the Swan in 

 Golding-lane) ; or to Mr. Fletchers 

 in the Court which did once belong 

 to Dr. A^w/theDean ofPau/s,thzt 

 I told you was a good man, and a 

 good Fiflier; it is hard by the weft 



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