PROGNOSTICS OF THE WEATHER. 157 



grieved may appeal to the next sessions : And 

 the form of the conviction may be this; 



Be it remembered, that on this day of 

 in the year of the reign of G. B. 



is convicted before me one of his 



Majesty's justices of the peace, for the of 



for and 1 do adjudge him 



to pay and forfeit the sum of Given under 



my hand and seal the day and year abovesaid. 

 5?. 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19- 



4. No person shall fasten any nets over rivers, 

 to stand continually day and night, on pain of 

 an hundred shillings to the king. 2. H/ 6* 

 c. 15. 



Our plenteous streams a various race supply, 

 The bright-eye'd perch, with fins of Tyriaudye, 

 1 he silver eel in shining volumes roll r d, 

 The yellow carp, in scales be-dropp'd with gold, 

 Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stain?, 

 And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains. 



POPE'S WINDSOR FOREST. 



CHAP. VIII. 



PROGNOSTICS OF THE WEATHER, INDEPENDENT OF THE BA- 

 110METER, EXTRACTED FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES. 



AS it is highly necessary that an angler should 

 be able to form a judgment of the change of 

 weather, on which his sport entirely depends; if 

 he observes the following signs, it will soon be- 

 come familiar to him. 



