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together ; but. I hope to fit him with a trout for his break- 

 fast, for I '11 be early up. 



PlSC. Nay, brother, you shall not stay so long ; for, look 

 you, here is a trout will fill six reasonable bellies. 



Come, hostess, dress it presently, and get us what other 

 meat the house will afford, and give us some of your best 

 barley-wine, the good liquor that our honest forefathers did 

 use to drink of ; the drink which preserved their health, and 

 made them live so long, and do so many good deeds. 



PETER. O' my word, this trout is perfect in season. Come, 

 I thank you, and here is a hearty draught to you, and to 

 all the brothers of the angle wheresoever they be, and to 

 my young brother's good fortune to-morrow. I will furnish 

 him with a rod, if you will furnish him with the rest of the 

 tackling ; we will set him up and make him a fisher. And 

 I will tell him one thing for his encouragement, that his 

 fortune hath made him happy to be scholar to such a master 

 a master that knows as much, both of the nature and 

 breeding of fish, as any man ; and can also tell him as 

 well how to catch and cook them, from the minnow to the 

 salmon, as any that I ever met withal. 



PlSC. Trust me, brother Peter, I find my scholar to be 

 suitable to my own humour, which is, to be free and pie 

 sant and civilly merry, that my resolution is to hide nothi 

 that I know from him. Believe me, scholar, this is my 

 solution ; and so here 's to you a hearty draught, and to 

 that love us and the honest art of angling. 



VEN. Trust me, good master, you shall not sow yo 

 seed in barren ground, for I hope to return you an incre 

 answerable to your hopes ; but, however, you shall find 

 obedient and thankful and serviceable to my best ability. 



