36 A Booke 



To make it drie. 



Take the l^es of strong wine mixt with oyle, and put it in a place where ye 

 know it will drie, let it so remaine till it waxe blacke, and they will come to the 

 place, where the ofle shall be put, and so ye may take them. Ye may take also 

 Salarmoniack thirte'ene drams, and the butter of goates milke eight drams, beate 

 together, and make small soft pellets thereof, and therewith rubbe what graine, or 

 small lynsdede not broken, but dride : and they will fe'ede there all about, and will 

 not depart, and straite way ye may so take them. 



To take Laches or small fish. 



Take the branne of wheate meale, two pound, of lenten pease, halfe a pound, 

 mixe them together, and beate them with a sufficient quantitie of brine, and put 

 thereto halfe a pound of sessame. Then shall ye part it in pieces, and throw them 

 here and there : for as soon as ye haue thrown it in the water, all the small fish will 

 come vnto it, and remaine in one place, although they be 300. paces off. Also ye 

 may take the bloud of an Oxe, Goate, Sheepe, or of a Hogge, with the dung that is 

 in the small guts of them. Also of time, peniryall, le'ekes, sauerie, margarum, 

 garlick, with the lees of good wine, of each in like, with the grease or marow of 

 the saide beastes, so much as ye sdeme good : beate them a part, and then mixe 

 them a like together, and so make small pellets thereof, and cast it where ye will haue 

 the fish to come an houre before ye cast in your lines : or else take the bloud of a 

 blacke Goate, the le'es of good wine, of barley meale, all in like portion : beate 

 them all together with the lites of a Goate, and then cut them in small peeces and 

 make pellets therof, and^so vse them as aboue sayde. 



