1. Beat in a Mortar the Leg of a Young Coney (Vulgarly called the Almond) or of a Whelp or Catling, and a quantity of Virgins Wax and Sheeps suet, till they are incorporated, and temper them with clarified Honey into Paste.
2. Sheeps-Blood, Cheese, fine Manchet and clarified Honey tempered as before.
3. Sheeps-Kidney-suit, Cheese, fine Flower, with clarified Honey tempered.
4. Cherries, Sheeps-Blood, Saffron and fine Manchet made into a Paste.
5. Beat into a Paste; the fattest Old Cheese, the strongest Rennet can be got, fine Wheat-flower and Annis-seed Water: If for a Chub you make the Paste, put a little rasty Bacon,
Lastly, Mutton-Kidney-suit, and Turmerick reduced to a fine Powder, the fattest Old Cheese and strongest Rennet, wrought to a Paste, adding
Turmerick till the Paste be of a curious Yellow; and is excellent for Chevin.
Anoint your Bait with this Confection: Take the Oyl of Aspray, Coculus India, and Assa-fœtida beaten, and mix with it as much Life-Honey; then dissolve them in the Oyl of Polypody, and keep it in a close Glass for your use. And that your Paste may not wash off your Hook, beat Cotten-Wool or Flax into it.
Of keeping Baits.
The Red-Worm, must be kept in a bag of Red Cloth, with a handful of chopt Fennel, mixt with half so much fresh, black and fertile Mould will scoure and preserve them: All other Worms, with the Leaves of Trees they are bred on, renewing them often in a day. Only the Cad-bait, Bob and Canker, &c. must be kept in the same things you find them.