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I LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 
 
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 ! UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, f 
 
THIS EDITION 
 
 IS 
 
 DEDICATED 
 
 TO 
 
 The Willewemoc Club, 
 
 The American Editor. 
 
! 
 
AN AMERICAN EDITION 
 
 The Treatyse of Fysshynge 
 
 WYTH AN ANGLE, 
 
 THE BOKE OF ST. ALBANS, 
 
 Dame Juliana Berners, 
 
 A. D. 1496. 
 
 EDITED BY 
 
 GEO. W. VAN SICLEN, 
 
 Of the Ncio York Bar, 
 A. D. 1875. 
 
 \ 1875 c/; 
 
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 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by 
 
 Geo. W. Van Siclen, 
 in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 
 
PREFACE 
 
 TO THIS AMERICAN EDITION. 
 
 /TV HIS fresh, quaint, charming old book 
 should have been reprinted before, it 
 seems to me. 
 
 A brief extract from it in my copy of 
 Walton's Angler, made me desire to place 
 it on a certain shelf in my library, where, 
 by the side of " The Contemplative Man's 
 Recreation," repose Prime's " I Go a 
 Fishing," Wade's " Halcyon Days," Sir 
 Humphrey Davy's "Salmonia," and "The 
 Angler and His Friends," Norris' "Amer- 
 ican Angler," the New York State Report 
 
IO 
 
 on the Adirondacks, " The Babes in the 
 Woods," and interesting volumes indors- 
 ed with the names of Frank Forester, 
 Scott, Hallock, Francis, and others. 
 
 That's a delightful shelf ! 
 
 And I thought I would add to its treas- 
 ures : but not a copy of the old Dame's 
 book could I find : that is, in this country. 
 So I sent to the other side, and found that 
 one of the original copies, printed in 1496, 
 if I could get it at all, would cost me from 
 $2500 to $3000 : and that a copy of the 
 Baskerville edition, of 1827, would cost 
 
 $82. 
 
 Perhaps, however, critics may be found, 
 who may render it necessary for me to 
 state that I do not vouch for the correct- 
 ness of my transcript of the old English 
 style and spelling, on the ground that I 
 have read a copy of the original edition. 
 
1 1 
 
 I have no doubt that every angler who 
 reads this book will thank me for having 
 had it republished. I may be said to have 
 led you to the cool, limpid waters of the 
 source of the trout stream — the spring, 
 hidden in the ancient woods, and whose 
 brim is adorned with the moss of cen- 
 turies. 
 
 I have reproduced the elegant illustra- 
 tions which (I believe) adorned the first 
 edition. The earliest print from a wood 
 engraving of which any information can 
 be obtained, was found in an ancient Ger- 
 man convent ; it is a picture of St. Chris- 
 topher, and is dated 1423; in 1496 this 
 book was first " emprynted " ; I think it 
 quite possible that this old frontispiece 
 represented St. Peter : it is certainly quite 
 as good a likeness of him as I have ever 
 seen. The illustrations intended to instruct 
 
12 
 
 in the matter of lines and hooks, floats, 
 hammer, vice, etc., are about as valuable as 
 the more finished modern engravings of 
 similar instructions in modern books ; and 
 the method set forth for making " rodde 
 and lyne " remind me of the description 
 of the construction of a birch-bark bucket, 
 in an article which appeared long ago in 
 the " Knickerbocker Magazine." " It is 
 somehow thus. You take a large square 
 sheet of birch-bark and some wooden- 
 pins; you turn up one end of the bark and 
 stick in a pin ; you then turn up the side 
 and fasten it to the end ; you double the 
 ends together and fasten them with these 
 pins ; turn it up all round, so the water 
 won't run out, fasten it, and there's your 
 bucket; it is a very simple contrivance." 
 The aforesaid description of how to 
 make a rod seems to me to afford internal 
 
13 
 
 evidence that the book was written by a 
 woman ; and so does the delightful non 
 sequitur in many of the arguments, e. g. : 
 where, having stated the miseries attend- 
 ing the enjoyment of the three other 
 games, the authoress at once jumps to 
 the conclusion " dowteles thenne folowyth 
 it, that it must nedes be the dysporte of 
 fysshynge with an angle" that causeth "a 
 long lyfe and a mery." I am by no means 
 satisfied with the proof and argument in 
 the English Editor's preface to the 1827 
 Edition, (which is reprinted herewith), that 
 the book was not written by Dame Juliana 
 Berners. In " Biographia Britannica" art. 
 Caxton, note L., Mr. Oldys has given a 
 copious account of the whole book (The 
 Boke of St. Albans) and a character of 
 the lady who compiled it. Her name ap- 
 pears to have been " Dame Julyans (or 
 
H 
 
 Juliana) Berners, Bernes, or Barnes ; 
 prioress of the nunnery of Sopwell, near 
 St. Albans ; a lady of noble family — and 
 celebrated by Leland, Bale, Pitts and 
 Tanner, for her learning and accomplish- 
 ments. " I must confess that I am puzzled 
 a little to account for the lady's knowl- 
 edge of so practical a sport ; and yet, on 
 the Beaverkill, not far from the Wille- 
 wemoc Club House, in Sullivan County, 
 N. Y., I have seen a lady fill her creel 
 with the best ; so might the old dame and 
 her nuns have done in England just prior 
 to the time when this continent was dis- 
 covered, and long before the Willewemoc 
 had been heard of. The present Wille- 
 wemoc Club is not composed' of Indians; 
 nor is its club-house an Abbey, but a house 
 of hemlock boards, with comfortable rooms; 
 floors uncarpeted, except by the bedside; 
 
i5 
 
 and a broad piazza, furnished with easy 
 chairs, and overlooking a beautiful lake, 
 full of trout ; with an appanage of acres 
 of woodland, and four miles of a fine trout 
 stream. 
 
 There I shall go when the apple trees 
 are in blossom. 
 
 And to please the congenial spirits of 
 the modern monks who form that Club, 
 and the brethren of the angle through our 
 land, is this little book reprinted. 
 
 G. W. V. S. 
 
 New York, 1875. 
 
*7 
 
 PREFACE 
 
 TO THE ENGLISH EDITION OF 1827. 
 
 ADVERTISEMENT. 
 
 The following " Treatyfe of Fyff hynge 
 wyth an angle " is not only the earlieft, 
 but by far the moft curious effay upon the 
 fubject which has ever appeared in the 
 Englifh, or, perhaps, in any other lan- 
 guage. 
 
 It feems to have been firft printed by 
 Wynkyn De Worde, in his edition of the 
 Book of St. Albans in 1496 ; and, judging 
 from its orthography and language, it was 
 evidently written in the middle of the fif- 
 teenth century. An attempt has been 
 
i8 
 
 made by the editor of the reprint of that 
 work to prove, from the following paffage, 
 that it was originally compofed about that 
 time : " Now, thenne, will I dyfcrye the 
 fayd dyfportes and gamys to find the befte 
 of theym as veryly as I can : alle be it that 
 the right noble and full worthy prynce, the 
 Duke of Yorke, late callid mayfter of 
 game, hath dyfcryed the myrthes of hunt- 
 ynge lyke as I thinke to dyfcrye of it, 
 &c." ; but the evidence which it affords is 
 of a very doubtful character. The Treat- 
 yfe alluded to was written by Edmond of 
 Langley, Duke of Yorke, who died in 
 1402, and whofe fituation of " Mayfter of 
 the Game " is thus noticed by Hardyng : 
 " The Kyng then made the Duke of 
 York by name Maifter of the new houfe, 
 and his hawkes fayre of his venery and 
 Mayfter of Game ; " but the only pofitive 
 
19 
 
 inference which that fentence allows is, 
 that the writer had feen the treatyfe on 
 Huntynge, and that the royal author of it 
 was then deceafed, for from the great lax- 
 ity of language at that period it would be 
 very unfafe to confider that " late called 
 Mayfter of Game " meant either that the 
 Duke was then living, but no longer 
 " Mayfter of Game," or that " his name 
 and perfon were recent in memory in time 
 of the author." 
 
 Unfortunately, there are no means by 
 which the name of the Author of the 
 Treatyfe can be afcertained ; and the 
 opinion expreffed by Sir John Hawkins, 
 that it was written by Dame Julian de 
 Berners, is not only unfupported by even 
 a fhadow of proof, but it is negatived by 
 the following circumftances : It does not 
 occur in the flrft edition of the " Boke of 
 
20 
 
 St. Albans/' in 1488, and upon its intro- 
 duction into that work by Wynkyn de 
 Worde, he explains his motives for infert- 
 ing it in a manner which almoft eftablishes 
 that it is not the production of that cele- 
 brated 'woman, or of either of thofe by 
 whom fhe is suppofed to have been 
 affifted. 
 
 " Here we fhall make an ende of the 
 mooft fpecyall thynges of the boke of the 
 lygnage of cote armurys, and how gently- 
 men shall be knowen from ungentlymen. 
 And confequently fhall follow a compen- 
 dyous treatife of fyffhynge wyth an angle, 
 whiche is right neceffary to be had in this 
 prefent volum by caufe it fhewyth afore 
 the manere of hawkynge and huntynge, 
 wyth other dyvers maters right neceffary 
 to be knowen of noble men, and alfo for 
 it is one of the dyfports that gentlymen 
 
21 
 
 ufe. And alfo that it is not foo laborory- 
 ous ne foo difhoneft to fyffhe in this wyfe 
 as it is w e nettes and other engynes 
 whyche crafty men do ufe for theyr dayle 
 encreafe of goodes." But the conclufion 
 is ftill more convincing: ''And for by 
 caufe that this prefent treatyfe fholde not 
 come to the handys of eche ydle perfone 
 whyche wolde defire it yf it were em- 
 prynted allone by itfelf and put in a lyttle 
 plaunflet, therefore I have compylyd it in 
 a greter volume of dyverfe bokys con- 
 cernynge to gentyll and noble men, to the 
 extent that the forfayd ydle perfones 
 whyche fholde have but lytyll mefure in 
 the fayd dyfporte of fyffhynge fholde not 
 by this meane utterly deftroye it." 
 
 The latter paffage, befides its import- 
 ance, it is prefumed, decifive of the point 
 it is cited to prove, is deferving of atten- 
 
22 
 
 tion, from the wifh which it avows to 
 confine information on Angling to the up- 
 per claffes, who only could then afford to 
 piirchafe a large volume ; left, if it was.dif- 
 tributed among "ydle perfons, " by which 
 the lower orders, were probably meant, 
 there would be fo many fkilful anglers as 
 to leave but little fport for "gentlymen," 
 who alone, in the writer's eftimation, were 
 entitled to fuch an amufement. 
 
 The remark relative to a "lytylle plaun- 
 flet" favours the idea that a much greater 
 number of articles of that defcription were 
 then printed, and confequently, that many 
 more perfons were able to read than is 
 commonly imagined. 
 
 The only MS. of the Treatyfe which is 
 known to be extant, is a fragment now in 
 the poffeffion of Jofeph Haflewood, Efq., 
 and which formerly belonged to Mr. Wil- 
 
23 
 
 liam Herbert. It does not extend further 
 than the inftructions relating to the bait 
 for trout ; and the differences between it 
 and the printed copies, which are very few 
 and unimportant, are minutely given by 
 that accurate and indefatigable reviewer 
 of old Englifh literature, in his reprint of 
 the Boke of St. Albans. 
 
 It is not, however, merely as a literary 
 curiofity that this Treatyfe is of intereft, 
 for, independently of the information 
 which it contains of the ftate of Angling 
 at the period in which it was written, there 
 are fome grounds for prefuming that it 
 fuggefted to Walton the idea of his popu- 
 lar " Complete Angler," for the moft fu- 
 perficial reader cannot fail to be ftruck with 
 the general refemblance between them. 
 The Treatyfe of Fyff hynge wyth an Angle 
 commences with fome obfervations which 
 
24 
 
 are remarkable for their truth and fimplic- 
 ity; and, after comparing the purfuits of 
 Hunting, Hawking and Fowling with that 
 of Angling, the preference is, of courfe, 
 given to the latter. Then follow inftruc- 
 tions for making tackle, rods, baits, etc., 
 and a defcription of the moft fkilful man- 
 ner of uf ing, together with an account of 
 the various kinds of river fifh, and their 
 refpective merits as food : and the treatife 
 is concluded by fome admirable rules for 
 the governance of the conduct of anglers 
 towards each other, and towards thofe 
 whofe lands they frequent, an obfervance 
 of which, it is emphatically added, would 
 fecure " the bleffynge of God and Saynt 
 Petyre, whych he theym graunte that wyth 
 his precious blood us boughte." 
 
 Thus it is manifeft, that in the moft im- 
 portant features, Walton has clofely fol- 
 
lowed the Treatyfe ; and, although he has 
 much enlarged upon it, and introduced his 
 remarks in a dialogue, there is so great a 
 fimilarity between them as to juftify the 
 opinion, that if the original idea of his 
 work was n®t derived from this tract, he 
 was indebted to it in an eminent degree. 
 
 In piety and virtue — in the inculcation 
 of morality — in an ardent love for their 
 art, — and ftill more,— in that placid and 
 Chriftian fpirit, for which the amiable Wal- 
 ton was fo confpicuous, the early writer 
 was fcarcely inferior to his more celebrat- 
 ed fucceffor. Nor ought the fuggeftion to 
 offend the admirers of the latter, that 
 judging from their writings upon the fame 
 fubject, and making a proper allowance 
 for the different ftate of manners in the fif- 
 teenth and feventeenth centuries, it would 
 be difficult to find two more kindred fpirits 
 
26 
 
 than the authors of ."The Treatyfe of 
 Fyffhynge wyth an Angle" and of "The 
 Complete Angler." 
 
 To thofe, then, who confider that the 
 idea which has juft been hazarded poffeffes 
 fome foundation, this little volume is an 
 almoft indifpenfable companion to their 
 favorite Walton ; whilft to fuch as deny its 
 juftice, it will be fcarcely lefs acceptable ; 
 for what zealous angler can be indifferent 
 to the manner in which the art was prac- 
 ticed by his forefathers ? 
 
 January, 1827. 
 
Frontispiece to Original Edition. 
 
The Treatyfe of 
 Fyffhynge with an Angle, 
 
%\t Creatise 
 
 OF 
 
 Jfps|pge toit| an |UgIt 
 
 ATTRIBUTED TO 
 
 §mt iutianft |wtterj. 
 
 Reprinted froin the Book of St. Albans, a,7id from the 
 Edition : London. Printed with the types of 
 
 IJohn Baskerville, for William 
 Pickering, 1827. 
 
 New York : 
 
 JAS. L. BLACK, PRINTER, 7 WEST BROADWAY. 
 1875- 
 
Emprynted at Westmestre 
 
 by Wynkyn the Worde 
 
 The yere of Thyncarnacon of our Lorde. 
 
 MCCCCLXXXXVI. 
 
 Reprinted by Thomas White, Crane Court. 
 
 MDCCCXXXII. 
 
 Reprinted by James L. Black, New York. 
 
 1875- 
 
33 
 
 ^f Here Begynneth 
 
 The Treatyfe of Fyffhynge 
 
 Wyth an Angle. 
 
 Salamon in his parablys fayth that a 
 good fpyryte makyth a flourynge aege, 
 that is, a fayre aege and a longe, and fyth it 
 is foo : I afke this queftion, which ben the 
 meanes and the caufes that enduce a man 
 in to a merry fpyryte : truly to my beft 
 dyfcrecon it femeth good dyfportes and 
 honeft gamys in whom a man joyeth with- 
 out any repentance after. Thenne follow- 
 eth it y l gode dyfportes and honeft gamys 
 ben caufe of mannys fayr aege and longe 
 life. And therefore now woll I chofe of 
 foure good dyfportes and honeft gamys, 
 
34 
 
 that is to wyte ; of huntynge : hawkynge : 
 fyffhynge : and foulynge. The befte to 
 my fymple dyfcrecon whyche is fyffhynge : 
 called anglynge, with a rodde and a lyne 
 and an hoke : and thereof to treate as my 
 fymple wytte may fuffice : both for the 
 fayd reafon of Salamon, and alfo for the 
 reafon that phifyke makyth in this wyfe 
 ^j Si tibi deficiant medici medici tibi fiant 
 hec tria mens leta labor et moderata dieta. 
 ^j Ye fhall imderftonde that this is for to 
 faye : Yf a man lacke leche or medicyne 
 he fhall make thre thynges his leche and 
 medicyne : and he fhall nede neuer no moo. 
 The fyrfte of theym is a mery thought. The 
 feconde is labour not outrageo. The 
 thyrde is dyete mefurable. Fyrfte that yf 
 a man wyll euer more be in mery thoughtes 
 and have a glad fpyryte, he muft efchewe 
 all contraryous company, and all places of 
 
35 
 
 debate where he myghte haue any occa- 
 fyons of malencoly. And yf he woll haue a 
 labour not outrageous he muft thenne or-, 
 deyne him to his hertys eafe and pleafaunce, 
 wythout ftudye, penfyfneffe or traueyle, a 
 mery occupacyon, which may reioyce his 
 herte : and in whyche his fpyrytes may 
 haue a mery delyte. And yf he woll be 
 dyetyd mefurably, he muft efchewe all 
 places of ryotte whyche is caufe of furfette 
 and fykneffe : and he muft drawe him to 
 places of fwete ayre and hungry : and ete 
 nourifhable meetes and dyffyable alfo. 
 
 Now thenne woll I dyfcryue the fayd 
 dyfportes and gamys to fynde the befte of 
 them as veryly as I can. Alle be it that 
 the ryght noble and full worthy prynce, the 
 duke of Yorke, late callid mayfter of game, 
 hath difcryued the myrthes of huntynge 
 like as I thinke to difcryue of it, and of alle 
 
36 
 
 the other. For huntynge, as to myn en- 
 tent, is to laboryous, for the hunter muft 
 alwaye renne and followe his houndes : 
 traueyllynge and fwetynge full fore. He 
 blouyth tyll his lyppes blyfter : and when 
 he wenyth it be an hare, full oft it is an 
 hegge hogge. Thus chafyth and wote not 
 what. He comyth home at euyn rayn 
 beten pryckyd : and his clothes torne, wete 
 fhode, all myry. Some hound lofte: fome 
 furbat. Suche grues, and many other, 
 hapyth vnto the hunter, whyche, for dyf- 
 pleyfaunce of theym y 1 loue it, I dare not 
 reporte. Thus truly me femyth that this 
 is not the befte dyfporte and game of the 
 fayd foure. 
 
 The dyfporte and game of hawkynge is 
 laborious and noyous alfo, as me femyth. 
 For often the faukener lefeth his hawkes as 
 the hunter his hondes. Thenne is his 
 
37 
 
 game and his dyffporte goon. Full often 
 cryeth he, and whyftelyth tyll he be ryght 
 euyll a thurfte. His hawke taketh a bowe 
 and lyfte not ones on hym reuarde: whan 
 he wold haue her for to flee, thenne woll 
 fhe bathe : with myffedynge fhe fhall haue 
 the frenfe ; the rye ; the cray ; and many 
 other fykneffes that brynge them to the 
 fowfe. 
 
 Thus by prouff this is not the befte dyf- 
 porte and game of the fayd foure. 
 
 The dyfporte and game of fowlynge 
 me femyth mooft fymple. For in the wyn- 
 ter feafon the fouler fpedyth not but in the 
 mooft hardeft and coldeft weder ; whyche 
 is grevous. 
 
 For whan he wolde goo to his gynnes, 
 he maye not, for colde. Many a gynne, 
 and many a fnare, he makyth. Yet foryly 
 doth he fare. 
 
38 
 
 At morn tyde in the dewe he is weete 
 fhode unto his tallye. 
 
 Many other fuche I coude tell : but drede 
 of magre makith me for to leue. 
 
 Thus me ferny th that huntynge and hawk- 
 ynge, and alfo foulynge, ben fo laborous 
 and greous, that none of theyme maye 
 perfourme nor bi very meane that enduce 
 a man to a mery dyfporte, which is caufe 
 of his long life, according unto y e fayd par- 
 able of Salamon : 
 
 ^[ Dowteles thene folowyth it, that it 
 muft nedes be the dyfporte of fyffhynge 
 with an angle. For all other manere is 
 alfo laborous, and greous, whych many 
 tymes hath be feen caufe of grete infir- 
 mytes. But the angler may haue no colde, 
 nor no dyfeafe nor angre, but if he be 
 caufer hymfelf. For he maye not lefe at 
 the mooft but a lyne or an hoke : of whyche 
 
39 
 
 he may haue ftore plentee of his owne 
 makynge, as this fymple treatife fhall teche 
 him. So thenne, his loffe is not greous, 
 and other greffes may he not haue, fauynge 
 but yf ony fiffe breke away after that he is 
 take on the hoke ; or elles that he catche 
 nought : which ben not greuous. For yf 
 he dooth as this treatyfe techyth, but yf 
 there be nought in the water, and yette 
 atte the leeft he hath his holfom walke and 
 mery, at his eafe ; a fwete ayre of the 
 fwete fauoure of the meede floures, that 
 makyth hym hungry. He hereth the mel- 
 odyous armony of foules. He feeth the 
 yonge fwannes : heerons : duckes : cotes, 
 and many other foules wyth theyr brodes : 
 whyche me ferny th better than alle of noyfe 
 of houndys : the blaftes of hornys and 
 the crye of foulis that hunters, faukeners 
 and foulers can make. 
 
40 
 
 And yf the angler take fyffhe : furely 
 thenne is there noo man merier than he is 
 in his spyryte. 
 
 ^[ Alfo who foo woll vfe the game of 
 angly nge : he muft ryefe erly, whiche thyng 
 is prouffytable to man in this wyfe. That 
 is to wyte : mooft to the heele of his foule, 
 for it fhall caufe him to be holy ; and to 
 the heele of his body, for it fhall caufe him 
 to be hole. Alfo to the increafe of his 
 goodys, for it fhall make him riche. As 
 the olde englyfhe prouerbe fayth ^[ who 
 foo woll ryfe erly fhall be holy, helthy, and 
 zely. 
 
 Tj Thus have I prouyd in myn entent 
 that the dyfporte and game of anglynge is 
 the very meane and caufe that enducith a 
 man into a mery fpyryte : whyche after the 
 fayd parable of Salomon and the fayd doc- 
 
4i 
 
 trine of phifyk makyth a flourynge aege 
 and a longe. 
 
 And therefore to al you that ben vertu- 
 ous : gentyll : and free borne I wryte and 
 make this fymple treatife folowynge : by 
 whyche ye may haue the full craft of an- 
 glynge to dyfport you at your lufte, to the 
 entent that your aege maye the more fioure 
 and the more lender to endure. 
 
 Yf ye woll be crafty in anglynge ye muft 
 firft lerne to make your harnays, that is, to 
 wyte, your rodde : your lynes of dyuers 
 colours. After that ye muft know hou ye 
 fhall angle ; in what place of the water ; 
 how depe : and what time of day. For 
 what manere of fyffhe : in what wedyr. 
 How many impedymentes there ben in 
 fyffhynge y 1 is called anglynge. And in 
 fpecyall, wyth what baytys to euery dy- 
 uers fyffhe in eche monett of the yere. 
 
42 
 
 Hou ye fhall make your baytys brede, 
 where ye fhall fynde them : and hou ye 
 fhall keep theym : and for the mooft crafty 
 thynge hou ye fhall make youre hokes of 
 ftele and of ofmonde, fome for the dubbe : 
 and fome for the flote ; and the grounde : 
 as ye fhall here after al thyfe fynde ex- 
 preffed openly vnto your knowledge. 
 
 ^[ And hou ye fhall make your rodde 
 craftly here I fhall teche you. 
 
 Ye fhall kytte betwene Myghelmas and 
 Candlymas a fayr staffe of a fadom and a 
 halfe longe : and arme grete, of hafyll : 
 wylowe : or afhe. And bethe hym in an 
 hote ouyn : and fette him euen. Thenne 
 lete him cole and drye a moneth. Take 
 thenne and frette hym fafte wyth a cocke- 
 fhotecorde : and bynde him to a fourme 
 or an even fquare grete tree. Take thenne 
 a plumers wire that is euyn and ftreyte 
 
43 
 
 and fharpe at the one end. And hete the 
 fharpe ende in a charcole fyre tyll it be 
 whyte : and brenne the ftaffe therewith 
 thorugh : euer ftreyte in the pythe at both 
 endes tyll they mete. And after that 
 brenne hym in the nether end with a 
 byrde broche, and wyth other broches 
 eche gretter than the other, and euer the 
 gretter the lafte : fo that ye make your 
 hole aye tapre wexe. Thenne lete hym 
 lye ftyll and kele two dayes. Unfrette 
 hym then and lete hym drye in an hous 
 roof in the fmoke tyll he be thorugh drye. 
 ^[ In the fame feafon take a fayr yerde 
 of grene hafyll and beth him euyn and 
 ftreyghte, and lete it drye with the ftaffe, 
 and whan they ben drye, make the yerde 
 mete vnto the hole in the ftaffe : vnto halfe 
 the length of the ftaffe. And to perfourme 
 that other halfe of the croppe. Take a 
 
44 
 
 fayr fhote of black thorn crabbe tree : 
 medeler, or of jenypre kytte in the fame 
 feafon : and well bethyd and ftreyghte. 
 And frette them togyder fetely : foo that 
 the croppe may iuftly entre all in to the 
 fayd hole. Thenne fhaue your ftaffe and 
 make hym tapre wexe. Then vyrell the 
 ftaffe at both endes wyth longe hopis of 
 yron or laton in the clenneft wife with a 
 pyke in the nether ende faftynd with a 
 rennynge vyfe : to take in and out your 
 croppe. 
 
 Thenne fet your croppe an handfull 
 withen the ouer ende of your ftaffe in 
 fuche wife that it be as bigge there as in 
 ony other place aboue. Thene arme your 
 croppe at thouer ende doune to y e frette 
 wyth a lyne of vi heeres. And dubbe the 
 lyne and frette it faft in y e toppe wyth a 
 bowe to faften o your lyne. And thus 
 
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 fhall ye make a rodde foo preuy 
 that ye may walke therwyth ; and 
 there fhall noo man wyte where 
 aboute ye goo. It woll be lyghte 
 and full nymble to fyffhe wyth at 
 your lufte. And for the more 
 redyneffe loo here is a fygure 
 thereof in example. 
 
 After that ye haue made thus 
 your rodde : ye muft lerne to col- 
 oure your lynes of here in this 
 wyfe. Fyrfte, ye muft take of a 
 whyte horfe taylle the lengefth 
 heere, and fayreft that ye can 
 fynde. And euer the rounder it 
 be the better it is. Departe into 
 vy partes : and euery parte ye 
 fhall colour byhymfelfe in dyuers 
 colours. As yelowe : grene : 
 browne: tawney: ruffetanddufke 
 
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 colours. And for to make a good grene 
 colour on your heere ye fhall do thus. 
 
 ^[ Take fmall ale a quarte and put it in 
 a lyttyl panne and put thereto halfe a 
 pounde of alym. And put thereto your 
 heer : and lete it boyle foftly half an houre. 
 Thenne take out your heer and let it 
 drye. Then take a potell of water and 
 putte it in a panne and put therein two 
 handfull of oodlys or of wyxen. And 
 preffe it with a tyle ftone : and lette it 
 boyle foftly half an houre. And whan it 
 is yelow on the fcume put therin your heer 
 wyth halfe a pound of coporofe betyn in 
 poudre and let it boyle halfe a mylde waye: 
 and thenne fette it doune and lete it kele 
 fyve or fyxe houres. Then take out the 
 heer and drye it. And it is thenne the 
 fyneft grene that is for the water. And 
 euer the more ye put thereto of coporofe 
 
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 the better it is, or elles in ftede of it vert- 
 grees. 
 
 ^[ A nother wyfe ye maye make more 
 bryghter grene as thus. Lete woode your 
 heer in an woodefatte a lyght plunket col- 
 our. And thenne fethe hym in olde or 
 wyxin lyke as I haue fayde : fauynge ye 
 fhall not put thereto neyther coporofe nor 
 vertgrees. 
 
 ^[ A nother yelow ye fhall make thus. 
 Take fmalle ale a potell : and ftampe thre 
 handfull of walnot leues and put togider : 
 and put in your heer tyll that it be as depe 
 as ye woll haue it. 
 
 T| For to make ruffet heer. Take ftronge 
 lye a pynt and halfe a pounde of fote and 
 a lytell iuce of walnot leuys and a quarte 
 of alym : and put theym alle togyder in a 
 panne and boylle theym well. And whan 
 
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 it is colde put in your heer tyll it be as 
 derke as ye woll haue it. 
 
 T| For to make a broune colour. Take 
 a pound of fote and a quarte of ale : and 
 fethe it wyth as many walnot leuys as ye 
 maye. And whan they wexe blacke fette 
 it from the fire. And put therein your 
 heer and lete it lye ftill tyll it be as broune 
 as ye woll haue it. 
 
 ^j For to make a nother broune. Take 
 ftrong ale and fote and tempre them to- 
 gyder: and put therein your heer two 
 days and two nyghtes and it fhall be ryghte 
 a good colour. 
 
 ^[ For to make a tauney colour. Take 
 lyme and water and put theym togyder : 
 and alfo put your heer therein foure or 
 fyve houres. Thenne take it out and put 
 it in Tanners ofe a day and it fhall be alfo 
 a tauney colour as nedyth to our purpoos. 
 
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 ^f The fyxte parte of your heer ye fhall 
 kepe ftyll whyte for lynes for the dubbyd 
 hoke to fyffhe for the trought and gray- 
 lynge : and for fmalle lynes for to rye for 
 the roche and the darse. 
 
 Whan your heer is thus colourid ye muft 
 knoue for whiche waters and for whyche 
 feafons they fhall ferue. 
 
 ^f The grene colour in all clere water 
 from Apryll tyll Septembre. 
 
 ^f The yelowe coloure in euery water 
 from Septembre tyll Novembri. For it is 
 lyke y e wedys and other manere graffe 
 whiche growyth in the waters and ryuers, 
 whan they ben broken. 
 
 If The ruffet colour feruyth alle the wyn- 
 ter vnto the ende of Aprylle as well in 
 ryuers as in poles or lakys. 
 
 If The broune colour feruyth for that 
 
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 water that is blacke ded- 
 iffhe in ryuers or in other 
 waters. 
 
 ^[ The tauney colour for 
 thofe waters that ben 
 hethy or moryffhe. 
 
 Nou muft ye make your 
 lynes in this wyfe. 
 
 Fyrft loke that ye haue 
 an inftrument lyke onto 
 this fygure portrayed fol- 
 owynge. 
 
 Thenne take your heer 
 and kytte of the fmalle 
 ende a honde full large or 
 more. For it is neyther 
 ftronge nor yet fure. 
 Thenne torne the toppe 
 to the taylle eueryche 
 ylyke moche, and departe 
 
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 it in to thre partyes. Thenne knytte 
 euery parte at the one ende by hymfelf, 
 and at the other ende knytte all thre to- 
 gyder, and put y e fame ende in that other 
 ende of your Inftrument that hath but one 
 clyft. And fett that other ende fafte wyth 
 the wegge, four fyngers in all fhorter than 
 your heer. Thenne twyne euery warpe 
 one waye and ylyke moche, and faften 
 theym in thee clyftes ylyke ftreyghte : 
 take theme out that other ende and twyne 
 it that waye that it woll defyre ynough : 
 thenne ftreyne it a lytyll : and knytte itt 
 for vndoynge : and that is good. And for 
 to knoue to make your Inftrument: loo 
 here it is in fygure. And it fhall be made 
 of tree fauynge the bolte underneth : 
 which fhall be of yren. 
 
 Whan ye haue a many of the lynkys 
 as ye fuppofe wol fuffyfe for the length of 
 
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 a lyne ; thenne muft ye knytte theym to- 
 gyder wyth a water knotte or elles a 
 duchys knotte. And whan your knotte is 
 knytte ; kytte of y e voyde fhorte endes a 
 ftraue brede for the knotte. 
 
 Thus fhal ye make your lynes fayr and 
 fyne ; and alfo ryghte fure for ony manere 
 fyffhe. 
 
 ^[ And by caufe that ye fholde knoue 
 bothe the water knotte and alfo the duchys 
 knotte : loo theym here in fygure cafte 
 onto the lykneffe of the draughte.* 
 
 Ye fhall onderftonde that the moft fub- 
 tyll and hardyfte crafte in making of your 
 harnays is for to make your hokis. For 
 
 * Note in English Edition of 1827. — " A blank space is here 
 left in the original edition for the insertion of drawings of the water- 
 knot and the duchess' knot. The former is described in Daniels' 
 Rural Sports, Vol. 2, p. 151 ; and Walton's Angler, by Hawkins, 
 part 1, p. 255, and plate 10, fig. 5 of the latter. See the Ladies' 
 Dictionary, Art. Appurtenances to Dressing." 
 
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 whoos making ye muft haue fete fyles, 
 thyn and fharpe and fmalle beten : a ferny 
 clam of yren ; a bender : a payr of longe 
 and fmalle tongys ; an harde knyfe fom- 
 deale thycke : an anuelde : and a lytyll 
 hamour. 
 
 ^[ And for fmalle fyffhe ye fhall make 
 your hokes of the fmaleft quarell nedlys 
 that ye can fynde of stele, and in this 
 wyfe. 
 
 ^f Ye fhall put the quarell in a red 
 charkeole fyre tyll that it be of the fame 
 colour that the fyre is. Thenne take hym 
 out and lete hym kele, and ye fhall fynde 
 hym well alayd for to fyle. Thenne ryfe 
 the berde wyth your knyfe and make the 
 poynt fharpe. Thenne alaye hym agayn : 
 for elles he wolle breke in the bendyng. 
 Thenne bende hym lyke to the berde 
 fygured hereafter in example. And greet- 
 
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 er hoke ye fhall make in the fame wyfe, 
 of gretter nedles, as broderers nedlis : or 
 taylers: or fhomakers nedlis fpere poyntes 
 and of fhomakers nalles in efpecyall the 
 befte for grete fyffhe : and that they bende 
 alle the poynte whan they be affayed, for 
 elles they ben not good. 
 
 ^[ Whan the hoke is bendyd bete the 
 hynder ende abrode : and fyle it fmothe 
 for fretynge of the lyne. Thenne put it 
 in the fyre agyn, and yeve it an eafy redde 
 hete. Thenne fodaynly quenche it in wa- 
 ter : and it woll be harde and ftronge. 
 And for to haue knowlege of your Inftru- 
 ments : loo theym here in fygure por- 
 trayd. 
 
 Whan ye haue thus made your hokes : 
 thenne muft ye fet them on your lynes 
 acordynge in gretneffe and ftrength in this 
 wyfe. 
 
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 • ^ Ye fhall take fmall 
 redde filke, and yf it be 
 for a grete hoke, thenne 
 double it : not twynyd. 
 And elles for fmall hokys 
 lete it be fyngle : and 
 therwyth frette thycke the 
 lyne there as the one 
 ende of your hoke fhall 
 fytte a ftraw brede. Then 
 fette your hoke: and frette 
 hym with the fame threde 
 y 1 two partes of the 
 lengthe that fhall be frette 
 in all. And whan ye come 
 to the thride parte thenne 
 torne the ende of your 
 lyne agayn vpon the frette 
 dowble, and frette it fo 
 dowble that other thyrde 
 
 PLATE III. 
 
parte. Thenne put your threde in at the 
 hole tuys or thries and lete it goo at eche 
 tyrne around aboute the yerde of your 
 hoke. Thenne wette the hole and drawe 
 it tyll that it be fafte. And loke that your 
 lyne euermore uythin your hokys : and 
 not without. Thenne kytte of the lynys 
 ende and the threde as nyghe as ye maye : 
 fauynge the frette. 
 
 Now ye knowe wyth hou grete hokys 
 ye fhall angle to euery fyffhe : nou I woll 
 tell you wyth hou many heeres ye fhall to 
 euery manere of fyffhe. 
 
 Tj For the menow wyth a lyne of one 
 heere. For the waxyng roche the bleke 
 and the gogyn and the ruffe wyth a lyne 
 of two heeris. For the darfe and the 
 grete roche wyth a lyne of thre heeres. 
 For the perche : the flonder and bremet 
 with foure heeres. For the cheuen 
 
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 chubbe : the breme : the tenche and the 
 ele wyth vj heeres. For the trough te : 
 graylynge : barbyll and grete cheuyn wyth 
 ix heeres. For the grete troughte wyth 
 xii heeres. For the samon wyth xv heeres. 
 And for the pyke wyth a chalke lyne made 
 broune with your browne colour aforfayd: 
 armyd with a wyre as ye fhall here here- 
 after whan I fpeke of the pyke. 
 
 If Your lynes muft be plumbid wyth 
 lede : and ye fhall wyte y* the nexte plube 
 vnto the hoke fhall be therfro a laree fote 
 and more. And euery plumbe of a quan- 
 tyte to the gretnes of the lyne. There 
 be thre manere of plubis for a grounde 
 lyne rennynge. And for the flote fet 
 vpon the grounde lyenge x plumbes joyn- 
 ynge all togider. On the grounde lyne 
 rennynge ix or x fmalle. The flote plube 
 fhall be fo heuey y 1 the leeft plucke of ony 
 

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 fyffhe maye pull it doune in to y e water. 
 And make your plubis rounde and fmoythe 
 y l they stycke not on ftonys or on wedys. 
 And for the more vnderftondynge to 
 theym, here in fygure. 
 
 Thenne fhall ye make your flotys in this 
 wyfe. 
 
 Take a fayre corke that is clene without 
 many holes, and bore it thrugh wyth a 
 fmalle hote yreu : and put therin a penne 
 iufte and ftreyghte. Ever the more fiote 
 the gretter the penne and the greter hole. 
 
 Thenne fhape it grete in the myddis 
 and fmall at bothe endys, and fpecyally 
 fharpe in the nether ende, and lyke vnto 
 the fygures folio wynge 
 
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 and make theym fmothe on a gryndynge 
 ftone : or on a tyle ftone. 
 
 ^[ And loke that the flote for one heer 
 be nomore than a pefe. For two heeres, 
 as a bene : for twelve heeres as a walnot. 
 And fo euery lyne after the proporcon. 
 
 ^f All manere lynes that ben not for the 
 groude muft haue flotes ; and the rennynge 
 grounde lyne muft haue a flote. The 
 lyenge grounne lyne without flote. 
 
 Nou I haue lernyd you to make all your 
 harnays. Here I woll tell you hou ye 
 fhall angle. 
 
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 Tf Ye fhall angle. 
 Vnderftonde that there is vi maners of 
 anglyng. That one is at the grounde for 
 the troughte and other fyffhe. A nother 
 is at y e grounde at an arche, or at a ftange 
 where it ebbyth and flowyth : for bleke : 
 roche and darfe. The thyrde is wyth a 
 flote for all manere of fyffhe. The fourthe 
 wyth a menow for y e troughte without 
 plumbe or flote. The fyfth is rennynge 
 in y e fame wyfe for roche and darfe wyth 
 one or two heeres and a flye. The fyxth 
 is wyth a dubbyd hoke for the troughte 
 and graylyng. 
 
 ^[ And for the fyrfte and pryncypall 
 poynt in anglynge, kepe ye euer fro the 
 water fro the fyghte of the fyffhe : other 
 ferre on the londe ; or ellys behynde a 
 bufhe that the fyffhe fe you not. For yf 
 they doo, they woll not byte. 
 
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 ^[ Alfo loke that ye fhadow not the wa- 
 ter, as moche as ye may. For it is that 
 thynge that woll foone fraye the fyffhe, 
 and yf a fyffhe be afrayed he woll not bite 
 longe after. For alle manere fyffhe that 
 fede by the grounde ye fhall angle for 
 theym to the bottome, fo that your hokys 
 fhall renne or lye on the grounde. And 
 for alle other fyffhe that fede aboue, ye 
 fhall angle to theym in the myddis of the 
 water or fomedeale byneth or fomedeale 
 aboue. For euer the gretter fiffe the 
 nerer he lyeth the botom of the water, 
 and euer the fmaller y e fyffhe, the more he 
 fuymmyth aboue. 
 
 Ij The thyrde good poynte is whan the 
 fyffhe bytyth that ye be not to hafty to 
 fmyte nor to late. For ye muft abide tyll 
 ye fuppofe that the bayte be ferre in the 
 
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 mouth of the fyffhe, and thenne abyde no 
 longer. And this is for the grounde. 
 
 ^f And for the flote, whan ye fe it pullyd 
 foftly vnder the water : or elles caryd 
 vpon the water foftly : thenne fmyte. And 
 loke that ye neuer ouerfmyte the ftrengthe 
 of your lyne for brekynge. 
 
 ^f And yf it fortune you to fmyt a gret 
 fyfh with a fmall harnays thenne ye muft 
 lede hym in the water and labour hym 
 there tyll he be drounyd and overcome. 
 Thenne take hym as well as ye can or 
 maye, and euer be waar that ye holde not 
 ouer the ftrengthe of your lyne, and as 
 moche as ye may, lete hym not come 
 out of your lynes ende ftreyghte from you; 
 but kepe hym euer vnder the rodde and 
 euermore hold hym ftreyghte : foo that your 
 lyne may be fufteyne, and beere his lepys 
 
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 and his plungys wyth the helpe of your 
 cropp, and of your honde. 
 
 Here I woll declare vnto you in what 
 place of the water ye fhall angle. Ye 
 fhall angle in a pole, or in a ftandynge 
 water, in euery place when it is ony thynge 
 depe. There is not grete choyfe of ony 
 places when it is ony thynge depe in a 
 pole. For it is but a prifon to fyffhe, and 
 they lyve for y e more parte in hungre lyke 
 prifoners, and therefore it is the leffe mayf- 
 try to take theym. But in a ryuer ye fhall 
 angle in euery place where it is depe and 
 clere by the grounde : as grauell or claye 
 wythout mudde, or wedys ; and in ef- 
 pecyall yf that there be a manere whyr- 
 lynge of water or a couert, as a holow 
 banke ; or grete rotys of trees : or longe 
 wedys fletynge aboue in the water where 
 the fyffhe maye couer and heyde theym- 
 
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 felf at certayn tymes whan they lyfte. Al- 
 io it is good to angle in depe ftyffe ftremys; 
 and alfo in fallys of water and weares, and 
 in Mood gatys and mylle pyttes. And it is 
 £Ood for to an^le where as the water reft- 
 yth by the banke : and where the ftreym 
 rennyth nyghe there by : and is depe and 
 clere by the gronde and in ony other pla- 
 cys where ye may fe ony fyffhe houe or 
 haue ony fedynge. 
 
 Now ye fhall wyte what tyme of the 
 daye ye fhall angle. 
 
 T| From the begynnynge of May untyl 
 it be Septembre the bytynge tyme is erly 
 by the morrowe from foure of y e clocke : 
 foo vnto eighte of the clocke. And at af- 
 ter noon from foure of the clocke unto 
 eighte of the clocke, but not foo good as 
 in the mornynge. And yf it be a colde 
 whyftelynge wynde and a derke lowringe 
 
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 day : for a derke daye is moche better to 
 angle in than a clere daye. 
 
 ^[ From the begynnyng of Septembre 
 vnto the ende of Apryll fpare noo tyme of 
 the daye. 
 
 ^f Alfo many pole fyff hes woll byte befte 
 in the noon tyde. 
 
 Y And yf ye fe ony tyme of the daye 
 the troughte or graylynge lepe, angle to 
 hym wyth a dubbe acordynge to the fame 
 moneth. And where the water ebbyth 
 and flowyth the fyffhe woll byte in fome 
 place at the ebbe, and in fome place at the 
 flood : after y* they haue reftynge behynde 
 ftangyns and archys of brydgys and other 
 fuche manere places. 
 
 Here ye fhall wyte in what weder ye 
 fhall angle : as I fayd befoure, in a derke 
 lourynge daye whanne the wynde blowyth 
 
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 foftly: and in fomer feafon when it is 
 brennynge hote, thenne it is nought. 
 
 ^f From Septembre vnto Apryll in a 
 fayre fonny daye is ryght good to angle. 
 And yf the wynde in that feafon haue ony 
 parte of the oryent, the wedder thenne is 
 nought : and whan it fnowyth, rennyth or 
 hallyth, or is a grete tempefte, as thondyr 
 or lightenynge : or a furly hote weder : 
 thenne it is nought for to angle. 
 
 Now fhall ye wyte that there ben twelue 
 manere ympedymentes whyche caufe a 
 man to take noo fyffhe, w t out other 
 comyn that maye cafuelly happe. The 
 fyrft is yf your harnays be not mete, nor 
 fetly made. The feconde is yf your baytes 
 be not good nor fyne. The thyrde is yf 
 that ye angle not in bytynge tyme. The 
 fourthe is yf that the fyffhe be frayed w* 
 the fyghte of a man. The fyfth, if the wa- 
 
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 ter be very thycke : whyte or redde of 
 ony floode late fallen. The fyxthe, yf the 
 fyffhe ftyre not for colde. The feuenth, yf 
 that the wedder be hote. The eight, yf it 
 rayne. The nynth, yf it hayll, or fnowe 
 falle. The tenth is, yf it be a tempefte. 
 The eleuenth is yf if it be a grete wynde. 
 The twelfyfth yf the wynde lye in the Eeft, 
 and that is worfte, for comynly neyther 
 wynter nor fomer y e fyffhe woll not byte 
 thenne. The wefte and northe wyndes 
 ben good, but the South is befte. 
 
 And nou I haue tolde you hou to make 
 your harnays : and hou ye fhall fyffhe 
 therwyth in al pointes. Reafon woll that 
 ye knowe wyth what baytes ye fhall angle 
 to euery manere of fyffhe in euery month 
 of the yere, whyche is alle the effecte of 
 the crafte, and wythout whyche baytes 
 knowen well by you alle your other 
 
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 crafte here to fore auayllyth you not to 
 purpofe. For ye can not brynge a hoke 
 in to a fyffhe mouth wythout a bayte, 
 whyche baytes for euery manere of fyffhe 
 as for euery moneth here followyth in this 
 wyfe. 
 
 For by caufe that the famon is the mooft 
 ftately fyffhe that ony man maye angle to 
 in frefh water, there fore I purpofe to 
 begyn at hym. 
 
 The famon is a gentyll fyffhe : but he is 
 comborous for to take. For comynly he 
 is but in depe places in grete ryuers : and 
 for the more parte he holdyth the myddys 
 of it : that a man maye not come at hym. 
 And he is in feafon from Marche vnto My- 
 ghelmas. In whyche feafon ye fhall angle 
 to hym wyth thefe baytes whan ye fhall 
 gete theym. Fyrfte wyth a redde worme 
 in the begynynge and endynge of the fea- 
 
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 fon. And alfo wyth a bobbe that bredyth 
 in a dunghyll, and fpecyally with a fouer- 
 ayn bayte that bredyth on a water docke. 
 And he byteth not at the grounde : but at 
 the y e flote. Alfo ye may take hym, but 
 it is feldom feen, with a dubbe at fuche 
 tyme as whan he lepith, in like fourme and 
 manere as ye doo take a troughte or a 
 graylynge. And thyfe baytes ben well 
 prouyd baytes for the famon. 
 
 The troughte, for by caufe he is a right 
 deyntous fyffhe and alfo a right feruente 
 byter, we fhall fpeke next of hym. H*e is 
 in feafon from Marche vnto Myghelmas. 
 He is on clere grauely gronde, and in a 
 ftreme ye maye angle to hym all tymes 
 wyth a grounde lyne lyeinge or rennynge : 
 fauyng in lepynge tyme, and thenne wyth 
 a dubbe. And erly wyth a rennynge 
 grounde lyne, and forth in the daye wyth 
 
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 a flote lyne. Ye fhall angle to hym in 
 Marche wyth a menew hangyd on your 
 hoke by the netherneffe, wythout flote or 
 plumbe : drawynge vp and doune in the 
 ftreme tyll ye fele hym fafte. 
 
 In the fame tyme angle to hym with a 
 .gronde lyne with a redde worme for the 
 mooft fure. 
 
 In Aprill take the fame baytes : and alfo 
 Inneba other wyfed named vii eyes. Alfo 
 the canker that bredyth in a grete tree, 
 and the redde fnayll. 
 
 In Maye take y e ftone flye and the 
 bobbe vnder the cowe torde, and the fylk 
 worme ; and the bayte that bredyth on a 
 fern leyf. 
 
 In Juyn take a redde worme & nyppe 
 of the heed : and on thym hoke a cod- 
 worm e byforn. 
 
 In Juyle take the grete redde worme, 
 
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 and y e fatte of y e bakon, and bynde abowt 
 thy hoke. 
 
 In Sept. take the redde worme, and the 
 menew. 
 
 In Oct. take the fame : for they ben 
 fpecyall for the troughte all tymes of the 
 yere. 
 
 From Apryll till Septembre y e troughte 
 lepyth ; thenne angle to hym wyth a 
 dubbe hoke accordynge to the moneth, 
 whyche dubbyd hokys ye fhall fynde in 
 thende of this treatyfe ; and the moneyths 
 wyth theym. 
 
 The grayllynge, by a nother name call- 
 yd ombre, is a delycyous fyffhe to mannys 
 mouthe. And ye maye take hym lyke as 
 ye doo the troughte. And thyfe ben his 
 baytes. 
 
 In Marche & in Apryll, the redde 
 worme. 
 
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 In Maye, the grene worme : a lytyll 
 breyled worme; the docke-canker : and the 
 hawthorne worme. 
 
 In June, the batye that bredyth betwene 
 the tree & the barke of an oke. 
 
 In Juyll, a bayte that bredyth on a fern 
 leyf, & the grete redde worme, and nyppe 
 of the hede and put on your hoke a cod- 
 worme before. 
 
 In Auguft, the reddeworme : & a docke 
 worme. And al the yere after, a redde 
 worme. 
 
 The barbyll is a fwete fyffh, but it is a 
 quafy meete & a peryllous for mannys 
 body. For corny nly he yeuyth an intro- 
 duxion to y e Febres. And yf he be eten 
 rawe, he maye be caufe of mannys dethe : 
 whyche hath oft be feen. Thyfe be his 
 baytes. 
 
 In Marche & in Apryll, take fayr freffhe 
 
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 chefe; and lay it on a borde & kytte it in 
 fmall fquare pecys of the lengthe of your 
 hoke. Take thenne a candyl & brenne it 
 .on the ende at the poynt of your hoke tyll 
 it be yelow, and thenne bynde it on your 
 hoke with fletchers filke : and make it 
 rough: al the former feafon. 
 
 In Maye &. June take y e hawthorn 
 worme & the grete redde worme and 
 nyppe of the heed, and put on your hoke 
 a cod worme before : that is a good bayte. 
 
 In Juyll take the redde worme for cheyf 
 & the hawthorn worme togyd. Alfo the 
 water docke leyf worme & the hornet 
 worme togyder. 
 
 In Auguft & for all the yere take the 
 talowe of a fhepe & fofte chefe, of eche 
 ylyke moche : and a lytyll hony & grynde 
 or ftampe theym togyd longe ; and tempre 
 it tyll it be tough : and put therto floure a 
 
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 lytyll & make it on fmalle pellettys. And 
 y* is a good bayte to angle wyth at the 
 grounde. And loke that it fynke in the 
 water, or ellys it is not good to this pur- 
 poos. 
 
 The carpe is a deyntous fyffhe : but 
 there ben but fewe in Englonde. 
 
 And therefore I wryte the laffe of hym. 
 
 He is an euyll fyffhe to take. For he 
 is fo ftronge enarmyd in the mouthe that 
 there maye noo weke harnays holde hym. 
 And as touchynge his baytes I have but 
 lytyll knowlege of it. And me were loth 
 to wryte more than I knowe & haue prov- 
 yd. But well I wote that y e redde worme 
 & y e menow ben good batys for hym at al 
 tymes, as I haue herde faye of perfones 
 credyble & alfo founde wryten in bokes of 
 credence. 
 
 The chevyn is a ftately fyffhe : & his 
 
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 heed is a deynty morfell. There is noo 
 fyffhe fo ftrongly en army d wyth fcalys on 
 the body. And bi caufe he is a ftronge 
 byter, he hathe the more baytes, which ben 
 thyfe. 
 
 In Marche the redde worme, at the 
 grounde. For comynly thenne he woll 
 byte there at all tymes of y e yere yf he be 
 ony thinge hungry. 
 
 In Apryll the dyche canker that bredith 
 in the tree. A worme that bredith be- 
 twene the rynde & the tree of an oke. The 
 redde worme: and the yonge froffyhs whan 
 the fete ben kyt of. Alfo the ftone flye, 
 the bobbe vnder the cowetorde : the redde 
 fnaylle. 
 
 In May y e bayte that bredyth on the 
 ofyer leyf & the docke canker togyd vpon 
 your hoke. Alfo a bayte that bredyth on 
 a fern leyf: y e codworme and a bayte that 
 
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 bredyth on an hawthorn. And a bayte 
 that bredyth on an oke leyf & a fylke 
 worme and a codworme togyder. 
 
 In June taket the creket & the dome & 
 alfo a redde worme : the heed kytte of; & 
 a codworme before : and put theym on y e 
 hoke. Alfo a bayte in the ofyer leyf: 
 yonge froffhys the three fete kitte of by 
 the body, and the fourth by the knee. 
 The bayte on the hawthorne and the cod- 
 worme togyder & a grubbe that bredyth 
 in a dunghyll : and a grete grefhop. 
 
 In Juyll the grefhop and the humbylbee 
 in the medow. Alfo yonge bees and 
 yonge hornettes. Alfo a grete brended 
 flye that bredyth in pathes of medowes & 
 the flye that is amonge pyfmeers hyllys. 
 
 In Auguft take wortwormes & magotes 
 vnto Myghelmas. 
 
 In Sept. the redde worme : & alfo take 
 
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 the baytes whan ye maye get theym : that 
 is to wyte, cheryes : yonge myce not 
 heryd : & the houfe combe. 
 
 The breeme is a noble fyffhe & a deyn- 
 tous. And ye fhall angle for hym from 
 Marche vnto Auguft wyth a redde worme: 
 & thene wyth a butter Aye & a grene flye: 
 & with a bayte that bredyth amonge grene 
 redes : and a bayte that bredyth in the 
 barke of a deed tree. 
 
 And for bremettis, take maggotes. And 
 fro that tyme forth all the yere after take 
 the red worme : and in the ryuer broune 
 breede. 
 
 Moo baytes there ben but they ben not 
 eafy & therefore I lete hym paffe over. 
 
 A Tenche is a good fyffhe, and heelith 
 all manere of other fyffhe that ben hurte 
 yf they maye come to hym. He is the 
 moste parte of the yere in the mudde. 
 
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 And he ftyryth mooft in June & Juyll : 
 and in other feafons but lytyll. He is an 
 euyll byter. His baytes ben thyfe. 
 
 For al the yere broune bredee toftyd 
 wyth hony in lykness of a butteryd loof : 
 and the grete redde worme. And as for 
 cheyf take the blacke blood in y e herte of 
 a fhepe and floure and hony, and tempre 
 theym all togyder fomdeall fofter than 
 paaft : and anoynt therwyth the redde 
 worme : both for this fyffhe, and for the 
 other : and they woll byte moche the bet- 
 ter thereat at all tymes. 
 
 The perche is a dayntous fyffhe and 
 paffynge holfom and a freebytynge. Thife 
 ben his baytes. 
 
 In Marche the redde worme. 
 
 In Aprill, the bobbe vnder the cowe 
 torde. In Maye, the flothorn worme and 
 the codworme. In June, the bayte that 
 
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 bredyth in an olde fallen oke & the grete 
 canker. In Juyll, the bayte that bredeth 
 on the ofyer lefe and the bobbe that bred- 
 eth on the dung hyll : and the hawthorne 
 worme & the codworme. In Auguft, the 
 redde worme & maggote. All the yere 
 after, the red worme as for the befte. 
 
 The roche is an eafy fyffhe to take: and 
 yf he be fatte & pennyd thenne is he goode 
 meete & thyfe ben his baytes. In March 
 the mooft redy bayte is the red worme. 
 In Apryll the bobbe vnder the cowe torde. 
 In Maye the bayte y l bredyth on the oke 
 leyf & the bobbe in the dung hyll. In 
 June the bayte that bredith on the ofyer 
 & the codworme. In juyll hous flyes, and 
 the bayte that bredith on an oke, and the 
 motworme & mathewes & maggotes tyll 
 Myghelmas. And after y* the fatte of 
 bakon. 
 
The dace is a gentyll fyffhe to take, & 
 yf it be well drefet thenne is it good mete. 
 In Marche his bayte is a redde worme. In 
 Apryll the bobbe vnder y e cowe torde. 
 In Maye the docke canker and the bayte 
 on y e flothorn and on the oken leyf. In 
 June the codworme & the bayte on the 
 ofyer and the whyte grubbe in y e dung 
 hyll. In Juyll take hous flyes & flyes that 
 brede in pyfmer hylles : the codworme & 
 maggotes vnto Mighelmas. And yf the 
 water be clere ye fhall take fyffhe whan 
 other take none. And fro that tyme forth 
 doo as ye do for the roche. For comyngly 
 theyr bytynge & theyr baytes ben lyke. 
 
 The bleke is but a feble fyffhe, yet he is 
 holfom. His baytes from Marche to My- 
 ghelmas be the fame that I haue wryten 
 before for the roche and darfe fauynge all 
 the fomer feafon, as moche as ye maye, 
 
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 angle for hym with a hous flye : and in 
 wynter feafon w 1 bakon & other bayte 
 made ye hereafter maye know. 
 
 The ruf is ryght an holfom fyffhe: and ye 
 fhall angle to hym wyth the fame baytes in 
 all feafons of the yere, & in the fame wife 
 as I haue tolde you of the perche : for 
 they ben lyke in fyffhe & fedinge, fauynge 
 the ruf is leffe, and therfore he muft haue 
 y e fmaller bayte. 
 
 The flounder is an holfom fyffhe & a 
 free and a fubtyll byter in his manere ; for 
 comynly whan he foukyeth his meete he 
 fedyth at grounde : and therefore ye muft 
 angle to hym wyth a grounde lyne lyenge. 
 And he hath but one manere of bayte & 
 that is a red worme : which is mooft cheyf 
 for al manere of fyffhe. 
 
 The gogen is a good fyffhe, of the 
 mochenes: & he byteth wel at the grounde. 
 
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 And his baytes for all the yere ben thyfe : 
 y e red worme ; codworme : & maggdes. 
 And ye muft angle to hym w 1 a flote & 
 lette your bate be nere y e bottom or elles 
 on y e gronde. 
 
 The menow whan he fhynith in the wa- 
 ter, then is he bettyr, And though his 
 body be lytyll yet he is a rauenous biter & 
 an egre. And ye fhall angle to hym with 
 the fame baytes that ye doo for the gogyn : 
 fauynge they muft be fmalle. 
 
 The ele is a quafy fyffhe, a rauenour 
 & a devourer of the brode of fyffhe: and 
 for the pyke alfo is a devourer of fyffhe: 
 I put theym bothe behynde al other to 
 angle. For the ele ye fhall fynde an hole 
 in the gronde of the water, & it is blewe 
 blacky ff he, thenne put in your hoke tyll 
 that it be a fote wythin y e holi : and your 
 
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 bate fhall be a grete angyll tuytch or a 
 menow. 
 
 The pyke is a gret fyffhe : but for he 
 deuouryth fo many as well of his own 
 kynde as of other, I loue hym the leffe : 
 and for to take hym ye fhall doo thus. 
 Take a codlynge hoke : and take a roche 
 or a frefhe heering & a wyre wyth a hole 
 in the ende : and put it in at the mouthe 
 & out at the tayle downe by the ridge of 
 the frefhe heeryng ; and thenne put the 
 lyne of your hoke in after & drawe the 
 hoke in to the cheke of y e frefhe heeryng. 
 Then put a plumbe of lede upon your 
 lyne a yerde longe from youre hoke & a 
 flote in mydwaye betwene : & cafte it in a 
 pytte where the pyke vfyth. And this is 
 the befte & moft fureft crafte of takynge 
 the pyke. 
 
 Another manere takynge of hym is. 
 
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 Take a froffhe & put & put it on your 
 hoke at the necke betwene the fkynne & 
 the body on y e backe half & put on a flote 
 a yerde therfro ; & cafte it where the pyke 
 hauntyth & ye fhall haue hym. Another 
 manere. Take the fame bayte & put it in 
 afa fetida & caft it in the water wyth a 
 corde & a corke : & ye fhall not fayll of 
 hym. And yf ye lyft to haue a good 
 fporte ; thenne tye the corde to a gofe 
 fote : & ye fhall fe god halynge whether 
 the gofe or the pyke fhall haue the better. 
 Now ye wote well with what baytes & 
 how ye fhall angle to euery manere fyffhe. 
 Now I wol tell you ye fhall kepe & fede 
 your quycke baytes. Ye fhall kepe & 
 fede them all in general : but euery man- 
 ere by hymfelf with fuche thyng in and on 
 whiche they brede. And as longe as they 
 ben quycke & newe they ben fyne. But 
 
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 when they ben in a flough or elles deed 
 thenne ben they nought. Oute of thyfe 
 ben excepted thre brodes : that is to wyte 
 of hornettys : humblybees & wafpys, whom 
 ye fhall take in brede & after dyppe theyr 
 heedes in blode & lete theym drye. Alfo 
 except maggotes : whyche whan thei ben 
 bredde grete wyth theyr naturell fedynge, 
 ye fhall fede theym ferthermore wyth 
 fhepes talow & wyth a cake made of floure 
 & hony : thenne woll they be more grete. 
 And whan ye haue clenfyd theym wyth 
 forde in a bagge of blanket, kepte hote 
 vnder your gowne or other warm thyng 
 two howres or thre, then ben they beft & 
 redy to angyl wyth. And of the froffhe 
 kytte y e legge by the knee : of the gref- 
 hop, the legges and wynges by the body. 
 
 Thyfe ben baytes made to laft all the 
 yere. 
 
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 Fyrfte been floure & lene fleffhe of the 
 hepis of a cony or of a catte : virgyn 
 wexe & fheppys talowe : & braye theym 
 in a morter : and thenne tempre it at the 
 fyre wyth a lytyll puryfyed hony : and fo 
 make it vp in lyttyll ballys, & bayte ther- 
 wyth your hokys after theyr quantyte: & 
 this a good bayte for al manere freffhe 
 fyffhe. 
 
 Another. Take the feuet of a fhepe & 
 chefe in lyke quantyte : & braye theim to- 
 gider longe in a mortere : and take thenne 
 floure & tempre it therwyth : and after 
 that alaye it wyth hony & make ballys 
 thereof: and that is for the barbyll in ef- 
 pecyall. 
 
 Another for darfe & roche & bleke : 
 take whete & fethe it well & thenne put 
 it in blood all a day : and a nyghte ; & it 
 is a good bayte. 
 
For baytes for grete fyff he, kepe efpecy- 
 ally this rule : whan ye haue take a grete 
 fyff he : vndo the mawe : & what ye fynde 
 therein, make that your bayte : for it is 
 befte. 
 
 Thyfe ben the xij flyes wyth whyche ye 
 fhall angle to y e trought & grayllyng : 
 and dubbe lyke as ye fhall now here me 
 tell. 
 
 Tf Marche. 
 
 The donne flye. The body of the donne 
 woll & the wyngis of the pertyche. A 
 nother doone flye : the body of blacke 
 woll : the wynges of the blackyft drake : 
 and the jay vnder the wynge & vnder the 
 tayll. 
 
 if Apryll. 
 
 U The ftone flye : the body of blacke 
 wull : & yelowe vnder the wynge & vnder 
 the tayle & the wynges of the drake. In 
 
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 the begynnynge of Maye, a good flye, the 
 body of roddyd wull & lappid abowte 
 wyth blacke fylke : the wynges of the 
 drake & of the redde capons hakyll. 
 If May. 
 
 ^f The yelowe flye ; the body of yelow 
 wull : the wynges of the redde cocke 
 hakyll & of the drake lyttyl yelowe. The 
 blacke louper : the body of blacke wull & 
 lappyd abowte wyth the herte of y e pecock 
 tayll, & the wynges of y e red capon, w* a 
 blewe heed. 
 
 If June. 
 
 If The donne cutte : the body of black 
 wull & a yelow lyfte after eyther fyde : the 
 wynges of the bofarde bounde on with 
 barkyd hempe. The maure flye : the 
 body of dofke wull, the wynges of the 
 blackeft mayle of the wylde drake. 
 
 The taudy flye at Saynt Wyllyams daye : 
 
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 the body of taudy wull & the wynges 
 contrary eyther ayenft other of the whiteft 
 rnayle of y e wylde drake. 
 
 T Juyll. 
 
 Tf The wafpe flye : the body of blacke 
 wull & lappid abowte w 1 yelow threde: 
 the wynges of the bofarde. The fhell flye 
 at faynt Thomas daye : the body of grene 
 wull & lappyd abowte wyth the herle of 
 the pecoks tayll : wynges of the bofarde. 
 T[ Auguft. 
 
 ^f The drake flye ; the body of blacke 
 wull : & lappyd abowte wyth blacke fylke : 
 wynges of the mayll of the blacke drake, 
 wyth a blacke heed. 
 
 ^[ Thyfe figures are put here in enfample 
 of your hoke.* 
 
 ^[ Here folio wyth the order made to all 
 
 * [Note. — This plate I could not find. — Am. Editor.] 
 
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 thofe whiche fhall haue the vnderftondynge 
 of the forfayd treatyfe & vfe it for theyr 
 pleafures. 
 
 Ye that can angle & take fyffhe to your 
 pleafures as this forfayd treatyfe techyth 
 & fhewyth you : I charge & requyre you 
 in the name of alle noble men that ye 
 fyffhe not in noo poore mannes feuerall 
 water : as his ponde : ftewe : or other 
 neceffary thynges to kepe fyffhe in, wyth- 
 out his lycence & good wyll. 1[ Nor that 
 ye vfe not to breke noo mannys gynnys 
 lyenge in theyr weares & in other places 
 due vnto theym. Ne to take the fyffhe 
 awaye that is taken in theym. For after 
 a fyffhe is taken in a mannys gynne yf the 
 gynne be layed in the comyn waters : or 
 elfe in fuche waters as he herith, it is his 
 owne proper goodes : and yf ye take it 
 awaye, ye robbe hym : whyche is a ryght 
 
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 fhamefull dede to ony noble man to do y 1 
 that thevys & brybours done : whyche are 
 punyffhed for theyr evyil dedes by the 
 necke & otherwyfe whan they maye be 
 afpyed & taken. And alfo yf ye doo in 
 lyke manere as this treatyfe fhewyth you : 
 ye fhall haue no nede to take of other 
 menys : whiles ye fhal haue ynough of 
 your owne takynge yf ye lyfte to labour 
 therfore ; whyche fhall be to you a very 
 pleafure to fe the fayr bryght fhynynge 
 fcalyd fyffhes dyfeeyved by your crafty 
 meanes & drawn vpon londe. ^f Alfo that 
 ye breke noo mannys heggys in goynge 
 abowte your dyfportes : ne opyn noo 
 mannes gates but that ye fhytte theym 
 agayn. If Alfo ye fhall not vfe this for- 
 fayd crafty dyfporte for no covetyfenes to 
 thencreafynge & fparynge of your money 
 oonly : but pryncypally for your folace, & 
 
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 to caufe the helthe of your body, and 
 fpecyally of you re foule. For whan ye 
 purpoos to goo on your dyfportes in fyffh- 
 ynge, ye woll not defyre gretly many per- 
 fones wyth you, whyche myghte lette you 
 of your game. And thenne ye maye ferue 
 God devowtly in fayenge affectuoufly your 
 cuftumable prayer. And thus doynge ye 
 fhall efchewe & voyde many vices, as 
 idylnefs, whyche is pryncypall caufe to en- 
 duce man to many other vyces, as it is 
 ryght well knowen. 
 
 ^[ Alfo ye fhall not be rauenous in 
 takyng of your fayd game as to moche 
 at one tyme ; whiche ye maye lyghtly doo 
 yf ye doo in euery poynt as this prefent 
 treatyfe fhewyth you in euery poynt : 
 whyche lyghtly be occafyon to dyftroye 
 your owne dyfporte & other mennys alfo. 
 As whan ye haue fuffycyent mefe ye 
 
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 fholde coveyte nomore as at that tyme. 
 ^[ Alfo ye fhall befye yourfelfe to nouryfh 
 the game in all that ye maye : & to de- 
 ftroye all fuch thynges as ben devourers 
 of it. ^[ And all thofe that done after this 
 rule fhall haue the bleffynge of God & 
 faynt Petyr : whyche he theym graunte 
 that wyth his precyous blood vs boughte. 
 
 ■^f And for by caufe that the prefent 
 treatyfe fholde not come to y e hondys of 
 eche ydle perfone whyche wolde defire it 
 yf it were empryntyd allone by itfelf & 
 put in a lytyll plaunflet, therfore I haue 
 compylyd it in a grete volume of dyverfe 
 bokys concernynge to gentyll and noble 
 men to the extent that the forfayd per- 
 fones whyche fholde haue but lytyll mefure 
 in the fayd dyfport of fyffhynge fhold not 
 by this meane utterly deftroye it. 
 
GLOSSARY. 
 
 
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 GLOSSARY. 
 
 aboue, 
 
 above 
 
 abrode, 
 
 broad, flat 
 
 aege, 
 
 age 
 
 affectuoufly, 
 
 effectively 
 
 al, 
 
 all 
 
 alayd, 
 
 annealed 
 
 alaye, 
 
 temper 
 
 alym, 
 
 alum 
 
 anuelde, 
 
 anvil 
 
 armony, 
 
 harmony 
 
 afa fetida, 
 
 asafcetida 
 
 afpyed, 
 
 espied 
 
 affayed, 
 
 tried 
 
 auayllyth. 
 
 availeth 
 
 aye, 
 
 always 
 
 ayenft, 
 
 opposite 
 
 ayre, 
 
 air 
 
 barbyll, 
 
 barbel 
 
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 baytys, 
 
 baits 
 
 beere, 
 
 bear 
 
 ben, 
 
 be, are 
 
 bene, 
 
 bean 
 
 berde, 
 
 beard 
 
 befye, 
 
 busy 
 
 beten, 
 
 beaten 
 
 bethe, 
 
 dry 
 
 bi, 
 
 be 
 
 bleke, 
 
 bleak 
 
 blewe, 
 
 blue 
 
 blode, 
 
 blood 
 
 blouyth, 
 
 bloweth 
 
 bobbe, 
 
 worm 
 
 bokys, 
 
 books 
 
 bofarde, 
 
 buzzard 
 
 brede, 
 
 breed : broad 
 
 breede, 
 
 bread 
 
 brenne, 
 
 burn 
 
 broche, 
 
 pin 
 
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 brodes, 
 
 broods 
 
 broderer's, 
 
 broiderer's 
 
 broune, 
 
 brown 
 
 brybours, 
 
 beggars 
 
 brydgys, 
 
 bridges 
 
 byforn, 
 
 before 
 
 byghte, 
 
 bend 
 
 byneth, 
 
 beneath 
 
 byrde, 
 
 bird 
 
 bytyth, 
 
 biteth 
 
 caryd, 
 
 . carried 
 
 caufer 
 
 cautious 
 
 chafyth, 
 
 chaseth 
 
 cheryes, 
 
 cherries 
 
 chefe, 
 
 cheese 
 
 cheuen, 
 
 chub 
 
 cheuyn. 
 
 chub 
 
 choyfe, 
 
 choice 
 
 clam, 
 
 clamp 
 
 clenneft, 
 
 neatest 
 
IOO 
 
 clyft, 
 
 cockfhotecorde, 
 
 comborous, 
 
 comyn, 
 
 comyngly, 
 
 coporofe, 
 
 cotes, 
 
 couert, 
 
 covetyfnes, 
 
 creket, 
 
 croppe, 
 
 cuftumable, 
 
 darfe, 
 
 dediffhe, 
 
 deed, 
 
 delyte, 
 
 departe, 
 
 derke, 
 
 deuouryth, 
 
 deyntous, 
 
 cleft 
 
 cord of a bird net 
 
 awkward 
 
 coming ; common 
 
 commonly 
 
 copperas 
 
 coots 
 
 covert 
 
 covetousness 
 
 cricket 
 
 rod 
 
 customary 
 
 dace 
 
 deadish 
 
 dead 
 
 delight 
 
 separate 
 
 dark 
 
 devoureth 
 
 dainty 
 
IOI 
 
 donne, 
 
 dun 
 
 dome, 
 
 stickleback 
 
 dofke, 
 
 dusk 
 
 doune, 
 
 down 
 
 dowble, 
 
 double 
 
 dowteles, 
 
 doubtless 
 
 draughte, 
 
 drawing 
 
 drede, 
 
 dread 
 
 drefet, 
 
 dressed 
 
 dubbe, 
 
 artificial fly 
 
 duchys, 
 
 duchess' 
 
 dyche, 
 
 ditch 
 
 dyete, 
 
 diet 
 
 dyfcrecon, 
 
 discretion 
 
 dyfcryue, 
 
 describe 
 
 dyfeeyved, 
 
 deceived 
 
 dyfpleyfaunce, 
 
 displeasure 
 
 dyfportes, 
 
 sports 
 
 dyffyable, 
 
 digestible 
 
 dyuers, 
 
 divers 
 
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 eche, 
 
 each 
 
 egre, 
 
 eager 
 
 elles, 
 
 else 
 
 enarmyd, 
 
 armed 
 
 euer, 
 
 ever 
 
 eueryche, 
 
 each 
 
 euyn, 
 
 even 
 
 euyll, 
 
 evil 
 
 fadom, 
 
 fathom 
 
 faftynd, 
 
 fastened 
 
 faukener, 
 
 falconer 
 
 Febres, 
 
 fevers 
 
 ferre, 
 
 far 
 
 feruente, 
 
 fervent 
 
 fete, 
 
 feet 
 
 fetely, 
 
 neatly 
 
 Mq, 
 
 fish 
 
 fletynge, 
 
 floating 
 
 flonder, 
 
 flounder 
 
 flotys, 
 
 floats 
 
io3 
 
 floure, 
 
 flourish 
 
 flourynge, 
 
 flourishing 
 
 folowyth, 
 
 follows 
 
 fote, 
 
 foot 
 
 foulis, 
 
 fowls 
 
 foulynge, 
 
 fowling 
 
 fraye, 
 
 frighten 
 
 frenfe, 
 
 frensy, fits 
 
 frette, 
 
 bind, 
 
 froffhys 
 
 frogs 
 
 froffyhs, /. 76, 
 
 read froffhys 
 
 fyrfte, 
 
 first 
 
 fyffhe, 
 
 fish 
 
 gamys, 
 
 games 
 
 g° d > 
 
 good 
 
 gogyn, gogen, 
 
 gudgeon 
 
 goodys, 
 
 goods 
 
 goon, 
 
 gone 
 
 gofe, 
 
 goose 
 
 grauell, 
 
 gravel 
 
io4 
 
 greffes, 
 
 griefs 
 
 greous, 
 
 grievous 
 
 grefhop, 
 
 grasshopper 
 
 grete, 
 
 great 
 
 grues, 
 
 mishaps 
 
 gynnes, 
 
 gins, snares 
 
 hakyll, 
 
 hackle 
 
 halynge, 
 
 pulling 
 
 hamour, 
 
 hammer 
 
 hapyth, 
 
 happeneth 
 
 harnays, 
 
 tackle 
 
 hafyll, 
 
 hazel 
 
 haue, 
 
 have 
 
 heed, 
 
 head 
 
 heele, 
 
 heal 
 
 heere, here, 
 
 hair, hear 
 
 heering, 
 
 herring 
 
 heerons, 
 
 herons 
 
 hegge hogge, 
 
 hedge-hog 
 
 hepis, 
 
 hips 
 
IO 
 
 hereth, 
 
 heareth 
 
 herith, 
 
 inherits 
 
 herle, 
 
 twist 
 
 hertys, 
 
 heart's 
 
 heryd, 
 
 haired 
 
 hete, 
 
 heat 
 
 hethy, 
 
 marshy 
 
 heuey, 
 
 heavy 
 
 hoke, hokis. 
 
 hook, hooks 
 
 hole, 
 
 whole 
 
 holfom, 
 
 wholesome 
 
 honde, 
 
 hand, hound 
 
 hopis, 
 
 hoops 
 
 hornys, 
 
 horns 
 
 hote, 
 
 hot 
 
 hou, 
 
 how 
 
 houe, 
 
 have had 
 
 houndys, 
 
 hounds 
 
 hyllys, 
 
 hills 
 
 hym, 
 
 him : it 
 
io6 
 
 mce, 
 
 juice 
 
 iuftly, 
 
 exactly 
 
 jenypre, 
 
 juniper 
 
 kele, 
 
 cool 
 
 knoue, 
 
 know 
 
 knytte, 
 
 tie 
 
 kytte, kitte, 
 
 cut 
 
 lakys, 
 
 lakes 
 
 lappid, 
 
 lapped 
 
 laffe, 
 
 last 
 
 laton, 
 
 tin-plate, brass 
 
 leche, 
 
 doctor 
 
 lede, 
 
 lead, 
 
 lenger, 
 
 longer 
 
 lengefth, 
 
 longest 
 
 lepys, lepyth, 
 
 leaps 
 
 lerne, 
 
 learn 
 
 lese, 
 
 lose 
 
 lete, 
 
 let 
 
 lette, 
 
 hinder 
 
07 
 
 leue, 
 
 leave 
 
 leuys, 
 
 leaves 
 
 leyf, 
 
 leaf 
 
 loo, 
 
 lo 
 
 loke, 
 
 look 
 
 londe, 
 
 land 
 
 loof, 
 
 loaf 
 
 loue, 
 
 love 
 
 louper, 
 
 looper-moth 
 
 lufte, 
 
 pleasure 
 
 lynkys, 
 
 links 
 
 lynys, 
 
 lines 
 
 lyppes, 
 
 lips 
 
 lyfte, 
 
 wish ; list 
 
 lyttell, 
 
 little 
 
 maggdes, 
 
 maggots 
 
 magre, 
 
 disgust 
 
 makyth, 
 
 makes 
 
 malencoly, 
 
 melancholy 
 
 mannys, menys, 
 
 men's 
 
io8 
 
 maure, 
 
 moor 
 
 mayle, 
 
 outer feathers 
 
 mayfter, 
 
 master 
 
 meane, 
 
 means 
 
 medeler, 
 
 medlar 
 
 meede, 
 
 meadow 
 
 meetes, 
 
 meats 
 
 menow, menew, 
 
 minnow 
 
 mefe, 
 
 mess 
 
 moche, 
 
 much 
 
 mochenes, 
 
 size 
 
 monett, moneth, 
 
 month 
 
 moo, 
 
 more 
 
 moryffhe, 
 
 marshy 
 
 myddis, 
 
 midst 
 
 Myghelmas, 
 
 Michaelmas 
 
 myghte, 
 
 might 
 
 mylle, 
 
 mill 
 
 myn, 
 
 my 
 
 myry, 
 
 miry 
 

 109 
 
 myffedynge, 
 
 misfeeding 
 
 ne, 
 
 nor 
 
 nedlys, 
 
 needles 
 
 nedyth, 
 
 needs 
 
 neuer, 
 
 never 
 
 nou, 
 
 now 
 
 noyous, 
 
 annoying 
 
 nyghe, 
 
 near 
 
 nyppe, 
 
 nip 
 
 o, 
 
 on 
 
 of, 
 
 off, of 
 
 oke, 
 
 oak 
 
 ones, 
 
 once 
 
 ony, 
 
 any 
 
 ordeyne, 
 
 order 
 
 oryent, 
 
 east 
 
 ofmonde, 
 
 a fern, or the starch from it 
 
 ofe, 
 
 ooze 
 
 ofyer, 
 
 osier 
 
 other, 
 
 either, (sometimes) 
 
I IO 
 
 ouer, 
 
 over; upper 
 
 outrageo, 
 
 outrageous 
 
 ouyn, 
 
 oven 
 
 paaft, 
 
 paste 
 
 parablys, 
 
 parables 
 
 partyes, 
 
 parts 
 
 pecys, 
 
 pieces 
 
 pellettys, 
 
 pellets 
 
 penne, 
 
 quill 
 
 pennyd, 
 
 confined 
 
 penfyfneffe, 
 
 pensiveness 
 
 pertyche, 
 
 partridge 
 
 pefe, 
 
 pea 
 
 plaunflet, 
 
 pamphlet 
 
 pleafaunce, 
 
 pleasure 
 
 plube, plumbe, 
 
 lead sinker 
 
 plumbid, 
 
 weighted 
 
 poles, 
 
 pools 
 
 potell, 
 
 two quarts 
 
 preuy, 
 
 privately 
 
I II 
 
 prouerbe, 
 
 proverb 
 
 prouff, 
 
 proof 
 
 prouffytable, 
 
 profitable 
 
 prouyd, 
 
 proved 
 
 pryckyd, 
 
 pricked 
 
 pynfons, 
 
 pincers 
 
 pyfmeer, 
 
 pismire 
 
 pythe, 
 
 pith 
 
 pytte, 
 
 pit 
 
 quarell, 
 
 square-head needle 
 
 quafy, 
 
 queasy 
 
 quycke, 
 
 alive 
 
 rauenous, 
 
 ravenous 
 
 redyneffe, 
 
 readiness 
 
 reioyce, 
 
 rejoice 
 
 renne, . 
 
 run 
 
 reuarde, 
 
 reward 
 
 roche, 
 
 roach 
 
 roddyd, 
 
 beaten 
 
 ruffe, p. 56, read 
 
 ruffe, a kind of perch 
 
I 12 
 
 ryefe, ryfe, 
 
 rise ; raise 
 
 ryuers, 
 
 rivers 
 
 famon, 
 
 salmon 
 
 fauoure, 
 
 savour 
 
 fauynge, 
 
 saving 
 
 fcume, 
 
 scum 
 
 fe, 
 
 see 
 
 ferny, 
 
 full of seams 
 
 ferue, 
 
 serve 
 
 feruyth, 
 
 serveth 
 
 fethe, 
 
 seethe 
 
 feu e nth, 
 
 seventh 
 
 feu e rail, 
 
 private, 
 
 feuet, 
 
 suet 
 
 fhaue, 
 
 shave 
 
 fheppys, shepes, 
 
 sheep's 
 
 fholde, 
 
 should 
 
 fhote, 
 
 shoot 
 
 fhynith, 
 
 shines 
 
 fhytte, 
 
 shut 
 
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 fmothe, smoythe, 
 
 smooth 
 
 fmyte, 
 
 strike 
 
 fodaynly, 
 
 suddenly 
 
 fomdeale, 
 
 somewhat 
 
 fomer, 
 
 summer 
 
 fonny, 
 
 sunny 
 
 forde, 
 
 sod 
 
 foryly, 
 
 sorrily 
 
 fote, 
 
 soot 
 
 fouerayn, 
 
 sovereign 
 
 foukyeth, 
 
 seeketh 
 
 fowfe, 
 
 pickle 
 
 fpedyth, 
 
 speedeth 
 
 fpyryte, 
 
 spirit 
 
 ftange, 
 
 pole 
 
 fangyn, 
 
 stanchion 
 
 ftewe, 
 
 pool 
 
 ftonys, 
 
 stones 
 
 ftraue, 
 
 straw 
 
 ftreyghte, streyte, 
 
 straight 
 
ii4 
 
 ftreyne, 
 
 strain 
 
 ftyre, 
 
 stir 
 
 fubtyll, 
 
 sly 
 
 furbat, 
 
 broken down 
 
 furfette, 
 
 surfeit 
 
 fufteyne, 
 
 sustained 
 
 fuymmyth, 
 
 swims 
 
 fwetynge, 
 
 sweating 
 
 fyth, 
 
 certainly 
 
 fyxte, 
 
 sixth 
 
 tap re, 
 
 taper 
 
 taudy, 
 
 white-dressed 
 
 taylle, 
 
 tail 
 
 techyth, 
 
 teacheth 
 
 thende, 
 
 the end 
 
 thencreasynge, 
 
 the increase 
 
 theym, thym, 
 
 them 
 
 thevys, 
 
 thieves 
 
 thorugh, thrugh, 
 
 through 
 
 thouer, 
 
 the upper 
 
1 1 
 
 thre, 
 
 three 
 
 threde, 
 
 thread 
 
 thride, 
 
 third 
 
 thries, 
 
 thrice 
 
 thyncarnacon, 
 
 the incarnation 
 
 thyfe, 
 
 this, these 
 
 togyder, togyd, 
 
 together 
 
 tongys, 
 
 tongs 
 
 torde, 
 
 turd 
 
 torne, 
 
 turn 
 
 toftyd, 
 
 toasted 
 
 traueyle, 
 
 travail, labor 
 
 trought, 
 
 trout 
 
 tuys, 
 
 twice 
 
 tuytch, 
 
 worm 
 
 twelue, 
 
 twelve 
 
 twynyd. 
 
 twisted 
 
 uythin, 
 
 within 
 
 vertgrees, 
 
 verdigris 
 
 vi, vy, 
 
 six 
 
n6 
 
 vnder, 
 
 under 
 
 Vnderstonde, 
 
 understand 
 
 vndoynge, 
 
 undoing 
 
 vnto, 
 
 unto 
 
 voyde, 
 
 useless, avoid 
 
 V P> 
 
 up 
 
 vpon, 
 
 upon 
 
 vfe, 
 
 use 
 
 vfyth, 
 
 frequents 
 
 vyfe, 
 
 vise 
 
 waar, 
 
 beware 
 
 waxing, 
 
 growing 
 
 wedder, wedyr, 
 
 weather 
 
 wedys, 
 
 weeds 
 
 wegge, 
 
 wedge 
 
 weke, 
 
 weak 
 
 wenyth, 
 
 thinks 
 
 wete, weete, 
 
 wet 
 
 wexe, 
 
 grow 
 
 whan, 
 
 when 
 
ii7 
 
 whoos, 
 
 whose 
 
 whyrlinge, 
 
 whirling 
 
 whyftelyth, 
 
 whistles 
 
 wold, 
 
 would 
 
 woll, 
 
 will ; wool 
 
 woode, 
 
 to steep in wood ashes 
 
 wood fatte, 
 
 wood-ash-vat 
 
 wote, 
 
 knows 
 
 wreste, 
 
 rest 
 
 w t , 
 
 with 
 
 wull, 
 
 wool 
 
 wylowe, 
 
 willow 
 
 wynges, 
 
 wings 
 
 wyte, 
 
 wit ; know 
 
 y e > 
 
 the 
 
 yerde, 
 
 yard ; shank 
 
 yere, 
 
 year 
 
 yeve, 
 
 give 
 
 yevyth, 
 
 gives 
 
 yf. ' 
 
 if 
 
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 n8 
 
 ylyke, alike 
 
 ynough, enough 
 
 yonge, young 
 
 yreu, p. 59, read yren 
 yren, yron, iron 
 

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