HOW TO FISH FOR TROUT. \J\ 



on the butt or body of an oak or ash, from the beginning of 

 May to th end of August : it is a brownish fly, and easy to 

 be found, and stands usually with his head downward, that 

 is to say, towards the root of the tree ; the small black fly, 

 or hawthorn-fly, is to be had on any hawthorn-bush after 

 the leaves be come forth. With these and a short line (as 

 I shewed to angle for a chub), you may dape or dop, and 

 also with a grasshopper behind a tree or in any deep hole : 

 still making it to move on the top of the water as if it were 

 alive, and still keeping yourself out of sight, you shall cer- 

 tainly have sport if there be trouts yea, in a hot day, but 

 especially in the evening of a hot day, you will have sport. 

 And now, scholar, my direction for fly-fishing is ended 

 with this shower, for it has done raining : and now look 

 about you, and see how pleasantly that meadow looks ; nay, 

 and the earth smells as sweetly too. Come, let me tell you 

 what holy Mr. Herbert says of such days and flowers as 

 these ; and then we will thank God that we enjoy them, and 

 walk to the river and sit down quietly, and try to catch the 

 other brace of trouts. 



Sweet day so cool, so calm, so bright, 

 The bridal of the earth and sky, 

 Sweet dews shall weep thy fall to-night 

 For thou must die. 



Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, 

 Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, 

 Thy root is ever in its grave 



And thou must die. 



Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, 

 A box where sweets compacted lie ; 

 My music shows you have your closes 

 And all must die. 



