ea 
in perpetual difeafe; the only point is, which way to lefien 
it; and that muft be by employment, which diverts the fenfe 
of our innate mifery. What can be a greater torture, than 
to live chained toa bed, though the beft in the world, and 
have no company nor bufinefs? ‘Therefore court bufinefs, if 
you would pafs for an epicurean, and let it be fuch as brings 
comfort to nature, and not pain and torment in the confe- 
quence; that is to fay, lawful, profitable, obliging, and tem- 
perate. So you avoid offending the publick, increafe your 
{tore, win your friends and family, and preferve your health; 
all which, I take it, are accomplifhed, in great meafure, by 
the maftery of fith. 
Now, as to the vending of fith, obferve that it is beft to be 
content with the market price, as you can find it, as moft are 
for other vendible commodities; and for carps between thirt 
teen or fourteen, or fixteen inches, meafuring from nofe-end 
to tail-end, twelve pence is a good priee; {elling to the nobi- 
lity or gentry, may produce one penny more, and may meafure 
up to feventeen; but never promife above twenty turned of 
fixteen in twelve {core. 
Of Benefits, befides the main Defign. 
LHESE are many, and not inconfiderable: as firft, when 
you make a great water, you take the firft {pit of the ground 
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