. An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature. ere bestore. Thus may any botcher kill fish. For want of a pannier : spit your fish by the gills on asmall wicker or such like. I use a pouch of parchment, with many several places toput my hooks and lines in. 244 Comments on The Secrets of Angling. [^ ^IJes I use a rod of two parts, to join in the midst when I cometo the river: with two pins and a little hemp waxed. Thusthe pins join it, and the hemp fastens it firmly. ^^ A whale bone made round, no bigger than a wheat strawat the top; yields well, and strikes well. Let your r
. An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature. ere bestore. Thus may any botcher kill fish. For want of a pannier : spit your fish by the gills on asmall wicker or such like. I use a pouch of parchment, with many several places toput my hooks and lines in. 244 Comments on The Secrets of Angling. [^ ^IJes I use a rod of two parts, to join in the midst when I cometo the river: with two pins and a little hemp waxed. Thusthe pins join it, and the hemp fastens it firmly. ^^ A whale bone made round, no bigger than a wheat strawat the top; yields well, and strikes well. Let your rod be without knots. They are dangerous forbreaking, and bouts are troublesome. Keep your rod neither too dry nor too moist; lest theygrow brittle or rotten. When you angle in [a time of] drought, wet your rod. Itwill not break so soon. You shall hardly get a rod of one piece, but either crookedor top heavy or unequally grown. Enterprise no mans ground without leave. Break nomans hedge to his loss. Pray to GOD with your heart to bless your lawfulexercise, Englands WAY TO WIN Wealth, and to employ Shipsand Mariners j OR, A plain description what great profit it will bring into the Common Wealth of England, by the erecting, building, and adventuring of Busses to sea, a fishing. With a true Relation of the inestimable wealth, that is yearly taken out of His Majestys seas by the Hollanders, by their great number of Busses, Pinks, and Line-boats. And Also, A Discourse of the sea coast towns of England, and the most fit and commodious places and harbours that we have for Busses; and of the small number of our fishermen; and also of the true valuation and whole charge of building and furnishing to sea. Busses and Pinks, after the Holland manner. By Tobias Gentleman, Fifherman and Mariner. LONDON: Printed by A^ TH AN I EL B u TTE R. 1614. I 247
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