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brood of wasps or bees, if you dip their heads in bloody 



Wasp's Nest. 



especially good for bream, if they be baked or hardened in 

 their husks in an oven, after the bread is taken out of it ; 

 or hardened on a fire-shovel : and so also is the thick blood 

 of sheep, being half-dried on a trencher, that so you may 

 cut into such pieces as may best fit the size of your hook ; 

 and a little salt keeps it from growing black, and makes it 

 not the worse, but better : this is taken to be a choice bait 

 if rightly ordered. 



There be several oils of a strong smell that I have been 

 told of, and to be excellent to tempt fish to bite, of which I 

 could say much. But I remember I once carried a small 

 bottle from Sir George Hastings to Sir Henry Wotton, 

 they were both chemical men, as a great present: it was 

 sent, and received, and used, with great confidence ; and yet, 



