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THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



[PART i. 



boast of four sorts of fish ; namely, an Arundel mullet, a 

 Chichester lobster, Shelsey cockle, and an Amerly trout. 1 



But I will take up no more of your time with this relation, 

 but proceed to give you some observations of the carp, and 

 how to angle for him, and to dress him : but not till he is 

 caught. 



Edward III.'s time is evident from Chaucer's Prol. to the "Canterbury 



Tales," edit. Tyrwh. p. 351, 352 : 



" Full many a fair partrich hadde he in mewe, 

 " And many a Breine and many a Luce in stewe." 



1 The little river Arun, which rising in St. Leonard's forest, falls into 

 the sea at Little Hampton, still boasts of its trout and its mullet ; the latter, 

 carried up by the spring tides, have sometimes been taken at Amberley 

 Castle, ten miles by the river, above Arundel, and twenty from the 

 sea. K. C. 



A disappointment. 



