worms to the Moss into the pot ; within two days you shall 

 find your worms so poor, that if you bait some of them 

 on your hook, you shall see that with throwing of them two 

 or three times into the water, they will dye and grow 

 white : now the skill is, when these worms be grown poor, 

 you must feed them up to make them fat and lusty, that they 

 may live long on the hook ; that is the chiefest point. 



To make them lusty and fat, you must take the yolke 

 of an Egge, some eight or ten spoonfull of the top of new 

 milk, beaten well together in a Porringer, warm it a little, 

 untill you see it curdle ; then take it off the fire, and set 

 it to coole ; when it is cold, take a spoonfull and drop 

 it upon your Moss into the pot, every drop about the bi*i- 

 nesse of a green Pea, shifting your Moss twice in the week 

 in the Summer, and once in the winter: thus doing, you 

 shall feed your wormes fat, and make them lusty, that they 

 will live a long time on the hook ; so you may keep them 

 all the year long. This is my true experience for the ground 

 Baits, for the running Line for the Trout. 



The Angling with a Menow, called in some places Pencks 

 for a Trout, is a pleasant sport, and killeth the greatest 

 Fish ; he commeth boldly to the Bait, as if it were a Mas- 

 tive Dog at a Beare : you rnay Angle with greater Tackles, 

 and stronger, and be no prejudice to you in your Angling : 

 a Line made of three silks and three hairs twisted for the 

 uppermost part of the Line, and two silkes and two haires 

 twisted for thebottome next your hook, with a Swivel nigh 

 the middle of your Line, with an indifferent large hook. 



To bait your hook with a Menow, you must putyour hook 

 through the lowermost part of his mouth, so draw your hook 

 thorow, then put the hook in at the mouth againe, let the 

 point of the hook come out at the hindmost Fin, then 

 draw your Line, and the Menowes mouth will close, that 

 no water will get into its belly ; you must alwayes be Angling 

 with the point of your Rod down the stream, with drawing 

 the Menow up the stream by little and little, )igh the top 

 of the water; the Trout seeing the bait, commeth at it most 

 fiercely, so give a little time before you strike : This is 

 the true way, without Lead ; for many times I have had 

 them come at the Lead and forsake the Menow, so he that 



