ng (being spent) and
become your Prey.

Thus much in general of taking all manner of _Fowle_, by _Net_, or
_Lime_, I come next to know their best Seasons, when to use them, and
the first (the _Net_) is from the beginning of _May_, to the latter end
of _October_; and the last (the _Lime_) in the _Winter_ only, beginning
from _November_, and ending at _May_, in which times, there being no
Leaves, your _Lime-Bushes_, and _Branches_ of _Trees_ are of one and the
same Hue.

And because Gentlemen who have _Fish-ponds_, wonder they loose so many
_Fish_, and are apt to Censure sometimes undeservedly their Neighbours,
when it is the insatiable _Hern_, that is the true cause: I shall next
lay down the best and most approved way of taking the great
_Fish-devouring Herne_, whose _Haunt_ having found, observe this Method
to take him. Get three or four small _Roaches_, or _Dace_, take a strong
_Hook_, (not too rank) with Wyre to it, and draw the Wyre just within
the skin, from the side of the _Gills_, to the _Taile_ of the said
_Fish_, and he will live four or five dayes, (if dead, the _Herne_ will
not touch it.) Then having a strong Line, of a dark-_Green-Silk_,
twisted with Wyre, about three yards long, tye a round stone of a pound
to it, and lay three or four such hooks, but not too deep in the Water,
out of the _Herne's_ wading; and two or three Nights will answer your
Expectation.

And here I thought to conclude this Discourse of _Fowling_, but the
young _Tyro_ or _Beginner_ in the Acquest of this Noble Art, pulls me
back again, and whispers this Question in my Ear, How to take
_Pheasants_, _Partridges_, &c. in particular, by either of the
forementioned wayes, as, _Nets_, _Lime_, _Engine_, _Driving_, or
_Setting_; because of all _Fowl_ for _Game_, these two are esteemed as
the most Gentile, and Profitable? I shall answer his Curiosity, and for
his Instruction, propose these ensuing Rules, though what I have said in
general of Great _Fowl_ might suffice.

_The severall wayes of taking _Pheasants_._

For to take _Pheasants_ with _Nets_, first find their _Haunts_, or
_Coverts_, which are generally in thick, young, well-grown _Copses_,
solitary and untraced by Men or Cattle, and not in Old High _Woods_; and
never in open _Fields_. Which having assured knowledge of, the next
thing is to find out the _Eye_, or _Brood_ of _Pheasants_, wich
according to the best Experience is thus. You must learn and understand
the several Note