250 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



that you may the better keep it on your hook, you may 

 knead with your paste a little, and not much, white or 

 yellowish wool. 



And if you would have this paste keep all the year, for 

 any other fish, then mix with it virgin wax and clarified 

 honey, and work them together with your hands before the 

 fire ; then make these into balls, and they will keep all the 

 year. 



And if you fish for a carp with gentles, then put upon 

 your hook a little piece of scarlet, about this bigness it 

 being soaked in or anointed with oil of peter, called by some 

 oil of the rock ; and if your gentles be put two or three days 

 before into a box or horn anointed with honey, and so put 

 upon your hook as to preserve them to be living, you are as 

 like to kill this crafty fish this way as any other ; but still, 

 as you are fishing, chew a little white or brown bread in 

 your mouth, and cast it into the pond about the place where 

 your float swims. Other baits there be ; but these, with 

 diligence and patient watchfulness, will do it better than any 

 that I have ever practised or heard of: and yet I shall tell 

 you, that the crumbs of white bread and honey, made into 

 a paste, is a good bait for a carp ; and you know it is more 

 easily made. And having said thus much of the carp, irr 

 next discourse shall be of the bream ; which shall not prove 

 so tedious, and therefore I desire the continuance of youi 

 attention. 



But, first, I will tell you how to make this carp, that is s< 

 curious to be caught, so curious a dish of meat, as shall make 

 him worth all your labour and patience ; and though it is 

 not without some trouble and charges, yet it will recompense 

 both. 



