A Booke 



wit, at foure a clocke in the morning, and eight at night be his chiefe byting times, 

 and he is so strong enarmed in the mouth, that no weake harnesse will hold him, 

 and his byting is very tickle : but as touching his baytes, hauing small knowledge 

 by experience, I am loth to write more then I know and haue prooued. But well 

 I wote, the red worme and the ]\Ieno\v be'e good baites for him in all times of the 

 yeare, and in June with the cadys or water worme : in July, and in August with the 

 Maggot or gentyll, and with the coale worme, also with paste made with hony and 

 wheate flower, but in Automne, with the redde worme is best, and also the Gras- 

 hopper with his legs cut off, which he wil take in the morning, or the whites of hard 

 egges steeped in tarte ale, or the white snaile. 



The Che2iyn. 



The Cheuyn is also a warie fish to take, and very fearefull : In March he will 

 byte at the redde worme at the ground, for commonly he will byte at the ground, 

 and somewhat de'epe at all times of the yeare, in Aprill, the cadyce or ditch canker, 

 and the canker that breedeth in the barke of a tre'e, and the worme that bre'edeth 

 betwe'ene the barke and the Oke tree : also the red worme, and the young frogge 

 his legges and feete cut off, also the stone Cadyce flye, and the bobbe worme vnder 

 the cowturd, likewise the redde snaile : in J\Iay, the baite that breedeth on the 

 Ozyar leafe, and the docke canker together put vpon your hooke, and the baite that 

 bre'edeth on the feme leafe, also the codde worme, and a baite that bre'edeth on the 

 hawthorne, and the worme that bre'edeth on the oke leafe, and also the silke worme 

 and the codde worme together : in June, take then the Crekets and the Dor flye, 

 and also the red worme, the heade cut off, and a codde worme before, also the 

 worme in the Oziar le'efe, and young frogges, the feete cut off by the body or by the 

 kne'e, also the baite on the hawthorne, and the codworme together, and the dunghill 

 grubbe or worm.e and a great Grashopper : in July, the Grashopper, and the humble 

 Bee in the medow the waterest, also young wasps and white young Hornets, taken 

 in their combes, and the greate branded flye that bre'edeth in pathes of medowes, 

 and the flying Pysmyars, which be in the pismyar hilles : in August, take the 



