HO OBSERVATIONS 



" small taper pewter box, and anoint your 

 41 line* with it, about eight or nine inches 



LC from the hook, and when it is washed off 

 " repeat the unction, probatum est" Cour- 

 teous reader what think you of these won- 

 derful compositions ? 



In Brooks is the following receipt. "Take 

 " goat's blood, barley meal, and lees of sweet 

 " wine, mix them with the lungs of a 

 " goat, boiled and pounded fine; make the 

 *' whole into pills, which throw into ponds 

 " or pits, and you may soon catch the fish, 

 " which are intoxicated by eating them. 5 ' 

 A man might very properly exclaim with 

 the carrier in Shakespere's first part of Hen- 

 ry IV. act 2, scene i, Ay % when, canst tellf 



' How to bring fish together/' Get the 

 <{ blood of an ox, a goat,"*' aad a sheep, with 



* Surely the author has substituted the word 

 " line " for " bait " or |s it an error of the prefs ? 



f It may reasonably be inferred that the author 

 resided in Wales, as the goat seems some how or 

 iher, to contribute to these wonderful nostrurrr, 



