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reveal it. But let me nevertheless tell you, that camphor, 

 put with moss into your worm-bag, with your worms, makes 

 them, if many anglers be not very much mistaken, a tempt- 

 ing bait, and the angler more fortunate. But I stepped by 

 chance into this discourse of oils and fishes smelling ; and 

 though there might be more said, both of it and of baits for 

 roach and dace and other float fish, yet I will forbear it at 

 this time, and tell you in the next place how you are to 

 prepare your tackling ; concerning which I will, for sport 

 sake, give you an old rhyme out of an old j fish-book, which 

 will prove a part, and but a part, of what you are to provide. 



My rod and my line, my float and my lead, 

 My hook and my plummet, my whetstone and knife, 



My basket, my baits both living and dead, 

 My net, and my meat (for that is the chief) : 



Then I must have thread, and hairs green and small, 



With mine angling-purse and so you have all. 



But you must have all these tackling, and twice so many 

 more, with which, if you mean to be a fisher, you must 

 store yourself; and to that purpose I will go with you 

 either to Mr. Margrave, who dwells amongst the book- 

 sellers in St. Paul's Churchyard, or to Mr. John Stubs, near 

 to the Swan in Golden Lane ; they be both honest men, 

 and will fit an angler with what tackling he lacks. 



VEN. Then, good master, let it be at for he is 



nearest to my dwelling ; and I pray let us meet there the 

 Ninth of May next, about two of the clock, and I '11 want 

 nothing that a fisher should be furnished with. 



PlSC. Well, and I '11 not fail you (God willing) at the 

 time and place appointed. 



