Teddington Weir. 



THE FIFTH DAY. 



CHAPTER XVII. 



OF ROACH AND DACE AND HOW TO FISH FOR THEM ; AND OF CADIS. 



Venator. Good master, as we go now towards London, 

 be still so courteous as to give me more instructions, for I 

 have several boxes in my memory, in which I will keep them 

 all very safe, there shall not one of them be lost. 



Pise. "Well, scholar, that I will : and I will hide nothing 

 from you that I can remember, and can think may help you 

 forward towards a perfection in this art. And because we 

 have so much time, and I have said so little of Roach and 

 Dace, I will give you some directions concerning them. 



Some say the roach is so called from rutilus, which, they 

 say, signifies red fins. He is a fish of no great reputation 

 for his dainty taste ; and his spawn is accounted much 

 better than any other part of him. And you may take 

 notice, that as the carp is accounted the water-fox, for his 



