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VEN : Nay, I will angle for these sprats no 

 longer ; there is no hooking them. I will e'en go 

 try for the big fellow, for I do believe that I can 

 reach him. Ay, he is still at work. Marry, by his 

 rise he is a trout indeed. So, another cast and I 

 cover him. 



Pise: Why, most naughty scholar, do I find 

 you so heedless of my counsels ? 



VEN : My loving master, are you back already ? 



Pise : Ay, our worthy keeper, Corydon, hath 

 furnished me out with these coarse, rough small- 

 clothes. I would they fitted me less straitly, but 

 beggars may not be choosers, eh, honest Corydon ? 



COR : Why, zur, there wasn' no more'n they two 

 pay-er fer 'ee to chuse amongst ; but 'ee did zurely 

 chuse the best. 



Pise : There is a penny for you. 



Con : Thank 'ee, zur. 



Pise : Spend it wisely ; let us not find you be- 

 mused with liquor this evening, when we come to 

 leave the water. And now we do not need an 

 attendant, so go your ways, for I mean to catch 

 yonder trout for this gentleman's supper. Come, 

 scholar, give place, and you shall soon see him at 

 closer quarters. 



VEN : Dear master, I have but this moment got 

 his length. 



