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PlSC. 'T is enough, honest scholar ! come, let 's to supper. 

 Come, my friend Coridon, this trout looks lovely : it was 

 twenty-two inches when it was taken ! and the belly of it 

 looked, some part of it, as yellow as a mangold, and part of 

 it as white as a lily ; and yet, methinks, it looks better in 

 this good sauce. 



CORIDON. Indeed, honest friend, it looks well and tastes 

 well : I thank you for it, and so doth my friend Peter, or 

 else he is to blame. 



PETER. Yes, and so do I, we all thank you ; and when 

 we have supped, I will get my friend Coridon to sing you a 

 song for requital. 



COR. I will sing a song, if anybody will sing another ; 

 else, to be plain with you, I will sing none : I am none of 

 those that sing for meat, but for company : I say, " 'T is 

 merry in hall when men sing all." 



PlSC. I '11 promise you I '11 sing a song that was lately 

 made at my request by Mr. William Basse one that hath 

 made the choice songs of the " Hunter in his Career," and 

 of " Tom of Bedlam," a and many others of note ; and this 

 that I will sing is in praise of angling. 



COR. And then mine shall be the praise of a country- 

 man's life : what will the rest sing of? 



PETER. I will promise you I will sing another song in 

 praise of angling to-morrow night ; for we will not part 

 'till then, but fish to-morrow, and sup together, and the next 

 jday every man leave fishing, and fall to his business. 



VEN. 'T is a match ; and I will provide you a song or a 

 catch against then, too, which shall give some addition of 

 jmirth to the company ; for we will be civil and as merry as 

 beggars. 



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