_via_. Marry so he is, for look he vents in that corner. Now, now _Ringwood_ has him. Come bring him to me. Look, 'tis a Bitch _Otter_ upon my word, and she has lately whelped, lets go to the place where she was put down, and not far from it, you will find all her young ones, I dare warrant you: and kill them all too. _Hunt_. Come Gentlemen, come all, lets go to the place where we put downe the _Otter_; look you, hereabout it was that shee kennell'd; look you, here it was indeed, for here's her young ones, no less then five: come lets kill them all. _Pisc_. No, I pray Sir; save me one, and I'll try if I can make her tame, as I know an ingenuous Gentleman in _Leicester-shire_ has done; who hath not only made her tame, but to catch fish, and doe many things of much pleasure. _Hunt_. Take one with all my heart; but let us kill the rest. And now lets go to an honest Alehouse and sing _Old Rose_, and rejoice all of us together. _Viat_. Come my friend, let me invite you along with us; I'll bear your charges this night, and you shall beare mine to morrow; for my intention is to accompany you a day or two in fishing. _Pisc_. Sir, your request is granted, and I shall be right glad, both to exchange such a courtesie, and also to enjoy your company. * * * * * _Viat_. Well, now lets go to your sport of Angling. _Pisc_. Lets be going with all my heart, God keep you all, Gentlemen, and send you meet this day with another bitch _Otter_, and kill her merrily, and all her young ones too. _Viat_. Now _Piscator_, where wil you begin to fish? _Pisc_. We are not yet come to a likely place, I must walk a mile further yet before I begin. _Viat_. Well then, I pray, as we walk, tell me freely how you like my Hoste, and the company? is not mine Hoste a witty man? _Pisc_. Sir, To speak truly, he is not to me; for most of his conceits were either Scripture-jests, or lascivious jests; for which I count no man witty: for the Divel will help a man that way inclin'd, to the first, and his own corrupt nature (which he alwayes carries with him) to the latter. But a companion that feasts the company with wit and mirth, and leaves out the sin (which is usually mixt with them) he is the man: and indeed, such a man should have his charges born: and to such company I hope to bring you this night; for at _Trout-Hal_, not far from this place, where I purpose to lodg to night, there is usually an Angler that proves good company. But for such discourse as we heard last night, it infects others; the very boyes will learn to talk and swear as they heard mine Host, and another of the company that shall be nameless; well, you know what example is able to do, and I know what the Poet sayes in the like case: ----_Many a one Owes to his Country his Religion: And in another would as strongly grow, Had but his Nurse or Mother taught him so_.