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vself by doing that natural office, that two or three melters 

 have helped her from off the weeds, by bearing her up on 

 both sides, and guarding her into the deep. And you 

 may note, that though this may seem a curiosity not 

 worth observing, yet others have judged it worth their 

 time and cost to make glass hives, and order them in 

 such a manner as to see how bees have bred and made 

 their honeycombs, and how they have obeyed their king, 

 and governed their commonwealth. But it is thought that 

 all Carps are not bred by generation; but that some 

 breed other ways, as some Pikes do. 



The physicians make the galls and stones in the heads 

 of Carps to be very medicinable. But it is not to be 

 doubted but that in Italy they make great profit of the 

 spawn of Carps, by selling it to the Jews who make it into 

 red caviare ; the Jews not being by their law admitted 

 to eat of caviare made of the Sturgeon, that being a fish 

 that wants scales, and, (as may appear in Levit. xi.) by 

 them reputed to be unclean. 



Much more might be said out of him, and out of Aris- 

 totle, which Dubravius often quotes in his Discourse of 

 jfishes : but it might rather perplex than satisfy you ; and 

 therefore 1 shall rather choose to direct you how to catch, 

 than spend more time in discoursing either of the nature 

 or the breeding of this fish, or of any more circumstances 

 concerning him. But yet I shall remember you of what 

 I told you before, that he is a very subtil fish, and hard to 

 be caught. 



And my first direction is, that if you will fish for a 

 Carp, you must put on a very large measure of patience, 

 especially to fish for a river Carp : I have known a very 

 good fisher angle diligently four or six hours in a day, 

 for three or four days together, for a river Carp, and not 

 have a bite. And you are to note, that, in some ponds, 

 it is as hard to catch a Carp as in a river ; that is to 



