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Some feed Carp and Tench with mowings 

 of grass, sheep and bullocks' blood, and 

 chicken-guts, which will help the growth 

 of the fish, and fatten them likewise ; but 

 then care should be taken to supply them 

 with no larger quantities than they can 

 dispense with, otherwise they will rot and 

 putrify, thereby making the water unwhole- 

 some. 



I shall finish this account of rivers, lakes, 

 fish-ponds, and their inhabitants, with a 

 description of the fish's enemies, which are 

 very numerous ; besides the human foes, 

 who claim a prescriptive right for their 

 destruction. 



A thousand foes the finny people chase, 

 Nor are they safe from their own kindred 



race : 



The Pike, fell tyrant of the liquid plain, 

 With rav'nous waste devours his fellow train; 

 Yet howsoever with raging famine join'd, 

 The Tench he spares, a salutary kind ; 



