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Now must yee know youf hookes, how to angle 

 for eiierie kinde of fis/ie. 



I will tell you with how many sufficient haires ye'e shall angle for euery kinde of 

 fishe. For the Meno with a line of one haire, for the small or wexing roche, the 

 bleke, the gagin, and the ruffe, with a line ot two haires, for the darce and the great 

 roche, with a line of three haire, for the perche, the flounder, and the small breme, 

 with a line of foure haures, for the cheuin chubbe, the breme, the tenche, and the 

 yeele, wdth a line of sixe haires, for the troute, the grailing, the barbyll, and the 

 great cheuin, with a line ot nine haires, for the great troute, with twelue haires, for 

 the saNvmon, with a line of fifteene haires, and for the pike, a chalke line, and 

 browne it with your browne couler aforesaid, and armed with a wier, as hereafter 

 shalbe se'ene, when I speake of the pike. 



To know how to plnmbe your line. 



Your lines must be plumbed with leade, finely and thin beate, and lapt close 

 about your line next your hooke, and the next leade to your hooke must be from 

 your hooke a foote long or else somewhat more : and euerie plummet ought to be 

 of the quantitie according to his line in bignes. There be three maner of 

 plummets and plumbings, which is for a groundline lying, and another for a ground- 

 line running : and the third line is the flote line set vpon the groundline lying, with 

 ten plummets ioyning altogether, running vpon the ground with xx. or tenne tenne 

 small plummets : and for the flote or corke Une, leade or plumbe him so heauie, 

 that the least plucke ot any fish may plucke it downe, and make the leades or 

 plummets sincke : for them, make them round and smooth, small and close to the 

 line at both endes, that they fasten not on weedes in the water, which will be a let 



