40 A Booke 



so holde it a while by three strings like a ballans, with a loope in the toppe, and 

 therein to put through a staffe or poale, and yee shall haue within a while so many 

 Menowes which will come and gase at it, as will couer it ; ye must hang a small 

 plommet in the middest, to make it sinke. And also the roundes must be flat 

 oyster shelles tyde to, and the squares must be scarlet or red cloth sowed on : your 

 hoope and net, may be three quarters and a halfe of a yeard broad from side to 

 side. Thus much for the Gase. 



How to bobbe for yccles. 



There is also a taking of yeeles with great wormes drawen through on a long 

 thre'ede one by an other, and then feulded up thre'e fingers d^epe, and then tyde 

 aboue all together, and a bigge string tide thereunto, and fastened vnto a short 

 poale, which ye shall holde in your hand. This is vsed to bobbe at the comming 

 of a floud water, and at the ebbing water of any water that ebbes and flowes. Also 

 it is vsed after a great raine in brookes and running waters, ye must let your bobbe 

 touch the bottome, and so vp with it softly againe, and so vse it still, and ye shall 

 fdele when any ydele doe bite : then pluck it vp not very fast, for then he will for- 

 sake the worme he hath hold of, and as soone as he feeles the ayre, he will 

 leese his holde, therefore ye must haue a vessell on the water alwaies readie, that 

 he'e may fall therein. Thus much for the bobbing for yeeles. 



