the tayle.'

Walton has:--

'The first is the dun fly in March: the body is made of dun wool, the
wings of the partridge's feathers. The second is another dun fly: the
body of black wool; and the wings made of the black drake's feathers,
and of the feathers under his tail.'

Again, the _Treatise_ has:--

_Auguste_. The drake fly. The body of black wull and lappyd abowte
wyth blacke sylke: winges of the mayle of the blacke drake wyth a
blacke heed.'

Walton has:--

'The twelfth is the dark drake-fly, good in August: the body made with
black wool, lapt about with black silk, his wings are made with the
mail of the black drake, with a black head.'

This is word for word a transcript of the fifteenth century _Treatise_.
But Izaak cites, not the ancient _Treatise_, but Mr. Thomas Barker. {6}
Barker, in fact, gives many more, and more variegated flies than Izaak
offers in the jury of twelve which he rendered, from the old _Treatise_,
into modern English. Sir Harris Nicolas says that the jury is from
Leonard Mascall's _Booke of Fishing with Hooke and Line_ (London, 1609),
but Mascall merely stole from the fifteenth-century book. In Cotton's
practice, and that of _The Angler's Vade Mecum_ (1681), flies were as
numerous as among ourselves, and had, in many cases, the same names.