A booke of fishing with hooke & line, and of all other instruments thereunto belonging. Another of sundrie engines and trappes to take polcats, buzards, rattes, mice and all other kindes of vermine & beasts whatsoeuer, most profitable for all warriners, and such as delight in this kinde of sport and pastime. Made by L.M.
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A booke of fishing with hooke & line, and of all other instruments thereunto belonging. Another of sundrie engines and trappes to take polcats, buzards, rattes, mice and all other kindes of vermine & beasts whatsoeuer, most profitable for all warriners, and such as delight in this kinde of sport and pastime. Made by L.M.
Author
Mascall, Leonard, d. 1589.
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London :: Printed by Iohn Wolfe, and are to be solde by Edwarde White dwelling at the little North doore of Paules at the signe of the Gunne,
[1590]
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Fishing -- Early works to 1800.
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"A booke of fishing with hooke & line, and of all other instruments thereunto belonging. Another of sundrie engines and trappes to take polcats, buzards, rattes, mice and all other kindes of vermine & beasts whatsoeuer, most profitable for all warriners, and such as delight in this kinde of sport and pastime. Made by L.M." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A07166.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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To take Pearch.
THe Pearch is a daintie fish and passing wholesome for
a man, he is also a frée and gréedy byter: these are his
baites, in March they take the red worme, in Aprill, the
bobbe worme vnder the cowdung, in May, the hawthorne
worme and the codworme, in Iune the baite that bréedeth
in an olde hollow oke, and the great canker: in Iuly the
baite that bréedeth on the Ozier leafe, and the great hobbe∣worme
that bréedeth in the dunghill, and the flyeboate
worme that bréedeth on the wéede raggewort, and the cod∣worme:
in August, then take the red worme and the Mag∣gots
or gentils, and the Menow tyed by the lippe, and for
all the yeare after, ye shall take the red worme, for that is
best.
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