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Shews to catch living Creatures with your hand^'

and to destroy them.

The Proem*.

F shall speaks of Fawknirgy th-it most men, and especially great men, delight tn, If

you will catch living creatures , they are taken byforse, or by craft. They are takenby craft, and kided. But how that may be done, shall be taught in Philosophy , that shews theNatw e and manners of living Creatures: For it is eajitywhen you know their Natures andtheir Manners y cunning may find ways to allure and take them. Fir fly i shall teach how toallure and take theniy by meaty whisky light, smelly love , and other frauds ; or else to makethem drunky and take th. m, or to kill them with venome. Ishall set down examples.

Chap. I.

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Here is nothing that more allures and draws on Animals, thenjjr« meat and pleasure , and love. Wherefore from these (hall I be-gin. They follow meat for necessity ; unless they would dyefor hunger, they must search for that -. But divers CreaturesKM feed on divers meats, and some of them feed on particular diet;and you may goess at the rest'thereby by your own reason.

HM; The bait for a Sturgeon , or Whale*fish.

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S’urgecns or Whales arc allured with the Lung; of a Bull rolled , hung upon a linewith a hook, call into the sea ; the Sturgeon presently smels it, and being greedy ofir,prefenrlv swallows it down. and is caught with the hook : Oxen draw him to the(here. zÆlian.

A bait for a Sargus.

The Sarpus loves Goats exceedingly, as we (hall (hew, and hunts after the smell ofthem Wherefore the Fisher-man wets his paste in Goats blood, and casts it intothat part oft he sea where they haunt ; and they are drawn thither by the sent of it,as by a charm, and arecatched with the hook. Moreover, if men fasten to the hookthe bait that is made of a Mouse fish faired , and move this gently in the sea, the Sar-gi will come to it exceedingly, and gather about the hook for the love of it, and areeafi'y caught by their greediness after the meat.

n/f bait for 7 hymalus.

Ticinus a River in Italy prodticeth a fish called Thymalus, that is not taken with thedainty baits that other fish are,but onely with the Gnat, an enemy to man ; and (hedelights in no other bait.

The bait for an Aulopiw.

Coracini, blackfish, whose heads (bine like Gold, allure the Aulopii; when they ob-serve some such dainty food, and they come to it rejoycing.