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and hornets, the ant-fly, and the great branded fly 

 that breeds in the paths of meadows. In August, 

 maggots ; and in September, the tempting morsels 

 for this " vilain" chub are " cheryes, yong myce 

 not heeryd, and the house combe." 



Pastes appear to have been in use at that time, 

 and one for tench, is directed to be made of the 

 black blood of a sheep's heart, flour, and honey, 

 and with this compost the red worm was to be 

 anointed. Brown bread toasted with honey, is also 

 recommended. The barbel, it seems, " is a sweet 

 fysshe, but is a quasy [queasy, a quasi, so-so] 

 meete and a perylous for mannys body." The eel 

 is also said to be a " quasy fysshe." In the account 

 of preparing baits, broods of hornets, humble-bees, 

 and wasps, are directed to be baked, and their heads 

 then dipped in blood and dried ; and maggots are to 

 be cleansed with sand in a bag made of *' blanket.'* 

 Baits, of flour and the lean flesh of the " hepis 

 [hips] of a cony or of a catte," virgin wax, and 

 sheep's tallow, brayed in a mortar, and tempered at 

 the fire with a little purified honey, and then made 

 into little balls, will serve all the year round, and 

 are good for all manner of fish. For dace, roach, 

 and bleak, wheat boiled and then steeped in blood, 

 is a proper bait. " For baytes for grete fysshe kepe 

 specyally this rule, when ye have take a grete fysshe 

 undo the mawe, and what ye finde therin make that 

 your bayte for it is beste." 



The following account of twelve artificial flies, 

 when they are to be used, and of what materials 

 they are to be made, sufficiently warrants the con- 



