T6 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. PART I. 



Pet. A match. Come Coridon, you are to be my bed- 

 fellow. I know, brother, you and your scholar will lie 

 together. But where shall we meet to-morrow night? 

 for my friend Coridon and I will go up the water towards 

 Ware. 



Pise. And my scholar and I will go down towards 

 Waltham. 



Cor. Then let's meet here, for here are fresh sheets 

 that smell of lavender ; and I am sure we cannot expect 

 better meat, or better usage in any place. 



Pet. Tis a match. Good-night to every body. 



Pise. And so say I. 



Ven. And so say I. 



Pise. Good morrow, good hostess, I see my brother 

 Peter is still in bed. Come, give my scholar and me a 

 morning-drink, and a bit of meat to breakfast : and be 

 sure to get a dish of meat or two against supper, for we 

 shall come home as hungry as hawks. Come scholar, 

 let's be going. 



Yen. Well now, good master, as we walk towards the 

 river, give me direction, according to your promise, how 

 I shall fish for a Trout. 



Pise. My honest scholar, I will take this very conve- 

 nient opportunity to do it. 



The Trout is usually caught with a worm, or a minnow, 

 (which some call a penk,) or with a fly, viz. either a 

 natural or an artificial fly : concerning which three, I will 

 give you some observations and directions. 



And, first, for worms. Of these there be very many sorts : 

 some breed only in the earth, as the earth-worm ; others 

 of, or amongst plants, as the dug-worm ; and others breed 

 either out of excrements, or in the bodies of living crea- 

 tures, as in the horns of sheep or deer ; or some of dead 

 flesh, as the maggot or gentle, and others. 



Now these be most of them particularly good for par- 



