CHAP. V.] THE THIRD DAY. 123 



Come, hostess ! dress it presently ; and get us what other 

 meat the house will afford ; and give us some of your best 

 barley-wine, the good liquor that our honest forefathers did 

 use to drink of; the drink which preserved their health, and 

 made them live so long, and to do so many good deeds. 



Peter. O' my word! this trout is perfect in season. 

 Come, I thank you, and here is a hearty draught to you, 

 and to all the brothers of the angle wheresoever they be, and 

 to my young brother's good fortune to-morrow : I will fur- 

 nish him with a rod, if you will furnish him with the 

 rest of the tackling; we will set him up and make him 

 a fisher. 



And I will tell him one thing for his encouragement, that 

 his fortune hath made him happy to be scholar to such a 

 master ; a master that knows as much both of tnc -vature 

 and breeding of fish as any man and can also tell him as 

 well how to catch and cook them, from the minnow to the 

 salmon, as any that I ever met withal. 



Pise. Trust me, brother Peter ! I find my scholar to be 

 so suitable to my own good humour, which is to be free and 

 pleasant and civilly merry, that my resolution is to hide 

 nothing that I know from him. Believe me, scholar ! this is 

 my resolution ; and so here's to you a hearty draught, and 

 to all that love us and the honest art of angling. 



Ten. Trust me, good master! you shall not sow your 

 seed in barren ground; for I hope to return you an 

 increase answerable to your hopes : but, however, you shall 

 find me obedient, and thankful, and serviceable to my best 

 ability. 



Pise. 'Tis enough, honest scholar ! come, let's to supper. 

 Come, my friend Coridon, this trout looks lovely ; it was 

 twenty-two inches when it was taken ; and the belly of it 

 looked, some part of it, as yellow as a marigold, and part of 

 it as white as a lily ; and yet, methinks, it looks better in 

 this good sauce. 



Cor. Indeed, honest friend ! it looks well and tastes well ; 

 .1 thank you for it, and so doth my friend Peter, or else he 

 is to blame. 



Peter. Yes, and so I do ; we all thank you ; and, when 

 we have supped, I will get my friend Coridon to sing you a 

 song for requital. 



