t is the greatest sport and pleasure that a
noble Gentleman in _Shropshire_ doth give his friends entertainment
with.

The way to make the best paste is, Take, a reasonable quantity of
fresh Butter, as much fresh sheeps Suet, a reasonable quantity of the
strongest Cheese you can get, with the soft of an old stale white
loafe; beat all this in a Morter till it come to perfect paste; put as
much on your hook as a green pease.

There are many wayes to take Eeles: I will shew you a good way to take
a dish of Eeles. When you stay a night or two Angling, take four or
five Lines, such as be laid for _Pikes_, of fourteen or fifteen yards
long, and at every two yards make a noose, to hang a hook armed either
to double thred, or silk twist; for it is better then wyre: Bait your
Hooks with Millors-thumbs, Loaches, Menowes, or Gudgins: tye to every
noose a Line baited: these Lines must be laid crosse the River in the
deepest places, either with stones, or pegged, so the Line lie in the
bottome of the river, there is no doubt of taking a dish of Eeles; you
must have a small neeld with an eye, to bait your hooks.

Now to shew how to make Flies: learn to make two Flies, and make all:
that is, the Palmer ribbed with silver or gold, and the May-flie:
these are the ground of all Flies.

We will begin to make the Palmer Flie: You must arme your Line on the
inside of the hook; take your Scisers, and cut so much of the brown of
the Mallards feather, as in your owne reason shall make the wings,
then lay the outmost part of the feather next the hook, and the point
of the feather towards the shanke of the hook, then whip it three or
four times about the hook with the same silk you armed the hook: then
make your silk fast: then you must take the hackle of the neck of a
Cock or Capon, or a Plovers top, which is the best, take off the one
side of the feather, then you must take the hackle silk, or cruell,
gold or silver thred; make all these fast at the bent of the hook,
then you must begin with Cruell, and Silver, or Gold, and work it up
to the wings, every bout shifting your fingers, and making a stop,
then the gold will fall right, then make fast: then work up the hackle
to the same place, then make the hackle fast: then you must take the
hook betwixt your finger and thumb, in the left hand, with a neeld or
pin, part the wings in two: then with the arming silk, as you have
fastned all hitherto, whip about as it falleth crosse betwixt the