VI 



Preface. 



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There is also a care alwayes to maintaine your pits and stuis 



with fish 34 



How to nourish your fish in pooles, mayers, and standing 



waters 34 



Of the taking of fish diuerse wayes 35 



Pour amorcer, or gather Tortues 35 



To make it drie 3^ 



To take Loches or small fish 3^ 



Another way 37 



To t^ke Perch 37 



To take the Samon as well in the Riuer, as in the sea 37 



To take much fish by a light in the night 38 



To take Yeeles in the winter in haye or straw bottles 38 



How to bre'ede and increase Yeeles in riuers, pondes, and 



standing waters 39 



The Gase for to catch Menowes 39 



How to bobbe for yeeles ^o 



c The ydele speare to take ydeles 4^ 



1 The Otter Speare 4^ 



To breede Millars-thumbes and Loches in shallow brookes or 



riuers 4^ 



The breeding of Creuis 44 



The kinges fisher 45 



The Cormorant 4^ 



The Dobchicke 4^ 



The More-coote or bauld Coote kils fish also 47 



The making of a water lime, a very good and a perfect way . . 47 



The Ospray 48 



The tempering of bird-lime, and it will serue also well in water . 48 



Lime made of Misteltoo 49 



A pretie way to take a pye 49 



It will be noticed that the compiler, as previously stated, has omitted the 

 introductory passages in which angling is compared, to its advantage, with 



