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we will fish till nine, and then go to breakfast. Go you to 

 yon sycamore-tree, and hide your bottle of drink under the 

 hollow root of it ; for about that time, and in that place, 

 we will make a brave breakfast with a piece of powdered 

 beef, and a radish or two that I have in my fish-bag : we 

 shall, I warrant you, make a good, honest, wholesome, 

 hungry breakfast, and I will then give you direction for the 

 making and using of your flies ; and in the meantime there 

 is your rod and line, and my advice is, that you fish as you 

 see me do, and let J s try which can catch the first fish. 



VEN. I thank you, master : I will observe and practise 

 your direction as far as I am able. 



PlSC. Look you, scholar, you see I have hold of a good 

 fish: I now see it is a trout. I pray put that net under him, 

 and touch not my line, for if you do, then we break all. 

 Well done, scholar ! I thank you. 



Now for another. Trust me, I have another bite : come, 

 scholar, come, lay down your rod, and help me to land this 

 as you did the other. So now we shall be sure to have a 

 good dish for supper. 



VEN. I am glad of that ; but I have no fortune : sure, 

 master, yours is a better rod and better tackling. 



PlSC. Nay, then, take mine ; and I will fish with yours. 

 Look you, scholar, I have another. Come, do as you did 

 before. And now I have a bite at another. Oh me ! he 

 has broke all : there 's half a line and a good hook lost. 



VEN. Ay, and a good trout too. 



PlSC. Nay, the trout is not lost ; for pray take notice, n 

 man can lose what he never had. 



VEN. Master, I can neither catch with the first nor second 

 angle : I have no fortune. 



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