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costs to make glass-hives, and order them in such a manner 

 as to see how bees have bred and make their honey-combs, 

 and how they have obeyed their king, and governed their 

 commonwealth. But it is thought that all carps are not 

 bred by generation, but some breed other ways, as some 

 pikes do. 



The physicians make the galls and stones in the heads of 

 carps to be very medicinable. But 'tis not to be doubted 

 but that in Italy they make great profit of the spawn of 

 carps, by selling it to the Jews, who make it into red caviare, 

 the Jews not being by their law admitted to eat of caviare 

 made of the sturgeon, that being a fish that wants scales, 

 and, as may appear in Levit. xi. 10, by them reputed to be 

 unclean. 



Much more might be said out of him, and out of Aristotle, 

 which Dubravius often quotes in his " Discourse of Fishes ; " 

 but it might rather perplex than satisfy you ; and therefore 

 I shall rather choose to direct you how to catch, than spend 

 more time in discoursing either of the nature or the breeding 

 of this 



Carp, 



or of any more circumstances concerning him : but yet I 

 shall remember you of what I told you before, that he is a 

 very subtle fish, and hard to be caught. 



And my first direction is, that if you will fish for a carp, 

 you must put on a very large measure of patience ; especially 



