Excerpt from The Salmon
'There is a river in Macedon,' says Fluellen in 'Henry V.,' 'and there is, moreover, a river in Monmouth: it is called Wye at Monmouth, but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other river: but 'tis all one, and there is salmons in both.' I had intended to introduce this quotation as a proof that Shakespeare, or rather Fluellen, did not know everything, but, curiously enough, the very first page of that mine of information Day's 'Salmonid? of Great Britain and Ireland' mentions that ?lian, who flourished about 180 A. D., alludes to a spotted fish in Macedonia that in his days was captured by means of an artificial fly, the mode of manufacturing which he details.
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