_Fisherman._—Food, and clothing, and money.
_Fisherman._—I get into my boat, and place my nets in the river, and I cast a hook and baskets, and I take whatever they hold.
_Master._—What if they are unclean fishes?
_Fisherman._—The unclean I cast out, and take the clean for food.
_Fisherman._—In the town.... The townsmen buy them. I cannot catch as many as I can sell.
_Master._—What sorts of fish do you catch?
_Fisherman._—Eels, and pike, minnows, eelpout, trout, and lamprey, and such sprats as swim in a river.
_Fisherman._—Sometimes I do, but seldom, for it is a long row for me to the sea.
_Fisherman._—Herrings, and salmon, porpoises, and sturgeon, oysters and crabs, mussels, periwinkles, cockles, plaice, and soles, and lobsters, and many such things.
_Fisherman._—Because it is a dangerous thing to catch a whale. It is safer for me to go to the river with my boat than to go with many boats on a whale-hunt.
_Fisherman._—Because I would sooner catch a fish that I can slay than one who can sink or kill not me only but also my mates with one blow.
_Master._—But, still, many catch whales, and escape the dangers, and obtain a great price therefor.
_Fisherman._—That’s true, but I dare not, on account of the cowardliness of my mind.
_Master._—What do you say, fowler? How do you snare birds?
_Fowler._—I snare them in many ways: sometimes with nets, sometimes with nooses, sometimes with lime, sometimes by whistling, sometimes with a hawk, sometimes with traps....
_Fowler._—In winter they feed themselves and me; in Lent I let them fly away to the wood; and in autumn I catch young birds and tame them.
_Master._—And why do you let those that you have tamed fly away from you?
_Fowler._—Because I do not wish to feed them in the summer, as they eat too much.
_Master._—But many men do feed tame hawks through the summer, so that they may have them ready again.
_Fowler._—Yes, so they do; but I do not wish to be so bothered with them, because I know how to catch many more.
_Trader._—I say that I am needful to the king, and ealdormen, and wealthy men, and to all the folk.
_Trader._—I get into my boat with my load, and I row over the waters and sell my things, and I buy things of great price which this land does not bring forth, and I bring them hither to you, with great danger, over the sea, and sometimes I suffer shipwreck, with the loss of all my things, barely escaping with my life.