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them in their holes ye shall hardly doe, if ye then let them scape, they will soone 

 conuay them selues away in the night or before night, and will runne very swift. 

 Thus much for lauing your pondes. 



TJiere is also a care alwayes to maintaine your pits 

 and stuis with fish. 



How your pits and stuis should be vsed to keepe fish in, your stues and pits 

 ought to bee oft renued and helpt with great and small fish from time to time, and 

 refreshed often with small fish among : for if you doe alwaies take, and none put to, 

 your store shall soone decrease. It shall be good also to put carefully your fish 

 therein, both small and great, and see that none be hurt if ye may, to put a Tench 

 with them it shall do well. And shall be very good husbandrie, to pricke and set 

 about the bandes [bankes], of willow, sallo, or alder, which mil be good to defend 

 the heate in sommer, from your fish, and to auoide the colde in winter : but the 

 falHng of leaues will increase mudde greatly, and also stinch your pondes. 



How to nourish your fish in pooles, mayers, 

 and standing waters. 



It is most certaine, the fish which is in riuers, and running waters, are at more 

 libertie then those which are closed in pondes and pits : for those in running waters, 

 the water bringeth to them alwaies some what to fe'ede on, and there also the small 

 fish doe nourish the great, but the fish inclosed can get no such thing. Therefore it 

 shalbe good to cast vnto them of small fish, and of guts and garbage of fish and of 

 beasts, and figges cut small, and nut curnels broosed, or broosed wheate, wormes, 

 graines of bruinges, white bread, all sortes of salt fishes cut and hackt in small peeces, 

 and such like. If your fish nourish and fat not with these, ye must fe'ede them with 

 the frettes or gubbins of market fish of the fishmongers : if yet they be leane, it 



