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therein : when it is a lande do but crush it with your foote and the ydeles will come 

 out if there be any. If ye lay it in the middest of a riuer, you may plucke it into 

 your boate. Thus you may take many y^eles in winter. 



Here is Jiow to sane mid presence fish. 



For so much as I haue afore shewed certaine waies and practises how to take 

 fish in riuers, pooles, and standing waters. I will here declare certaine waies how 

 for to maintaine fish, and the chiefest waies to saue and preserue them in rivers, 

 pooles, and standing waters, against such deuourers and rauerers [raueners] as hath 

 and will destroy them, as Heme, the Dobchicke, the Coote, the Cormorant, the 

 Sea-pie, the Kings fisher and such like : as also the Otter, which is a common 

 destroier of pondes and standing waters, and a great deuourer of and spoyler of 

 riuers, brookes, and running waters, which shall be declared in their places. 



The Heme. 



And first, to take the Hearne, which destroyes much young fish or other, if they 

 come nigh the shallow places or bankes : the Hearne is fearefuU and subtill for to 

 take, therefore some do bayte a hooke, or proch hooke with a Menow or other 

 small fish, or with the gobbet of some Ye'ele, then make your line green e, or like 

 the water where she hauntes in a shallow place or other where she resorts, there put 

 in your pinne in the earth of the shallow water, and lay your baite so that she may 

 wade halfe a fcete d(5epe vnto it, for else the Kite or Crow will soone haue it, for 

 she will soone swallow it and so be taken. 



The Otter. 



They take the Otter or water Wolfe, in a wele made and deuised for the nonce, 

 as shall be shewed in his place, which wele is not made in all points like vnto other 

 weles, where he will eate the fish and come foorth againe safe before he be drowned. 



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