1 84 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



return to their former pasture ; and again return to a finer 

 wool, being fed in the fine-wool ground. Which I tell you, 

 that you may the better believe, that I am certain, if I 

 catch a trout in one meadow, he shall be white and faint, 

 and very like to be lousy ; and as certainly, if I catch a 

 trout in the next meadow, he shall be strong, and red, and 

 lusty, and much better meat. Trust me, scholar, I have 

 caught many a trout in a particular meadow, that the very 

 shape and the enamelled colour of him hath been such as 

 have joyed me to look on him ; and I have then with much 

 pleasure concluded with Solomon, " Everything is beautiful 

 in his season." 



I should by promise speak next of the salmon ; but I will 

 by your favour say a little of the umber or grayling, which 

 is so like a trout for his shape and feeding, that I desire I 

 may exercise your patience with a short discourse of him, 

 and then the next shall be of the salmon. 



