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Of difpofing your Increafe of Fifh. 
Tuts care prefleth when you employ your great waters; 
and unlefs you have projected beforehand how you fhall dif- 
pofe your fifh, you will find yourfelf in great diforder. 
As for carps for the fervice of your houfe, and alfo tenches 
and perch for winter, they are to be difpofed into your ftews. 
The reft of your fifh, except the fry, you may put into the 
great water, and in March or April after, with flews or 
trammels, take out good quantities to recruit your winter's ex- 
pence taken from your ftews; the fry goes to your pikes, 
except carps, tench, and perch, which may go to fome of your 
auxiliary waters to be raifed, in order to become ftores again 
when you want. And if, after all, you find your ftock too 
high, you muft feed as I have already difcourfed. 
_ But you may contrive to keep your ftock within compais; 
for you ‘may enlarge the expence in your houfe, and gratify 
your family and friends that vifit you, with a difh as acceptable 
as any you can purchafe for money; or you may oblige ‘your 
friends and neighbours, by making prefents of them, which, 
from the ‘countryman to the king, is well taken; for many 
‘that have waters, not being in a method of hufbanding them, 
‘as well as others that have none, want and defire fath, and 
look upon fuch a prefent, as of a rarity, valuing it not by your 
plenty, but their own fearcity. And where fifh is plenty, it 
is a pofitive difgrace to appear covetous of them, rather more 
than 
