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 hoke tyll that it be a fote wythin pe hole, and 

 your bayte shall be a grete angyll twytch or a 

 menow. 



UThe pyke is a good fysshe : but for he deuouryth 

 so many as well of his owne kynde as of other : 

 I loue hym the lesse. & for to take- hym ye 

 shall doo thus. Take a codlynge hoke : & take 

 a roche or a fresshe heering & a wyre wyth an 

 hole in the ende : & put it in at the mouth & 

 out at the taylle downe by the ridge of the fresshe 

 heeryng. And thenne put the lyne of your hoke 

 in after. & drawe the hoke in to the cheke of pe 

 fresshe heeryng. Theii put a plumbe of lede vpon 

 your lyne a yerde longe from youre hoke & a 

 flote in mydwaye betwene : & caste it in a pytte 

 where the pyke vsyth. And this is the beste & 

 moost surest crafte of takynge the pyke. H A 

 nother manere takyne of hym there is. Take a 

 frosshe & put it on your hoke at the necke 

 bytwene the skynne & the body on pe backe half: 

 & put on a flote a yerde ther fro: & caste it where 

 the pyke hauntyth & ye shall haue hym. f A 

 nother manere. Take the same bayte & put it 

 in Asa fetida & cast it in the water wyth a corde 

 & a corke : & ye shall not fayll of hym. And 

 yf ye lyst to haue a good sporte : thenne tye the 



