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thereunto lelonginge, made by L. M. (Leonard Mascale) ; 

 we have little or nothing on the fishing art. It was, how- 

 ever, occasionally handled by the writers and poets of the 

 day in songs and squibs. We have an old ballad in 

 ' Disprayse of Women that allure but love not.' 



" That troupe of honest dames, 

 Those Grisels all are gone ; 

 No Lucrece now is left aliue, 

 Ne Cleopatra none. 



" Those days are all ypast, 

 That date is fleeted by ; 

 They myrrors were, dame Nature made, 

 Her skilful hand to try. 



"Now course of kinde exchaungde 



Doth yield a woorsen graine, 



And women in these latter years, 



These modest matrons staine. 



" Deceit is their delight, 



Great fraudes in friendly lookes ; 

 They spoil the fish for friendship's sake, 

 That hover on their hookes. 



" They huy the bait too deare, 



That so their freedome loze ; 



And they the more deceitfull are, 



That so can craft and gloze." 



In 1600, we have another treatise under the following 

 title : Certain experiments concerning Fish and Fruit, 

 practised by John Tavener, Gent., and by him published 



