CHAPTER XVII. 



OF ROACH AND DACE, AND HOW TO FISH FOR 

 THEM ; AND OF CADDIS. 



VEN. Good master, as we go now towards London, be 

 still so courteous as to give me more instructions ; for I 

 have several boxes in my memory, in which I will keep 

 them all very safe, there shall not one of them be lost. 



PlSC. Well, scholar, that I will ; and I will hide nothing 

 from you that I can remember, and can think may help 

 you forward towards a perfection in this art. And because 

 we have so much time, and I have said so little of Roach 

 and Dace, I will give you some directions concerning them. 



Some say the roach is so called from rutilns, which they 

 say signifies red fins. He is a fish of no great reputation 

 for his dainty taste ; and his spawn is accounted much 

 better than any part of him. And you may take notice, 

 that as the carp is accounted the water-fox for his cunning, 



6 the roach is accounted the water-sheep for his simplicity 

 foolishness. It is noted, that the roach and dace recover 

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