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Preface. 



this is to deftroy his future pleafure and to interfere with 

 that of his neighbours. A good fportfman too, (he adds, 

 will bufy himfelf in nourifhing the game and deflroying 

 all vermin. So will what Walton calls " the civil, well- 

 governed angler" efcape the vices which fpring from idle- 

 nefs, and enjoy the full delights of an elevating and noble 

 recreation. "And all thofe that done after this rule fhall 

 haue the bleffynge of god & faynt Petyr, whyche he theym 

 graunte that wyth his precyous blood vs boughte." 



" And therefore to al you that ben vertuous : gentyll : 

 and free borne I wryte & make this fymple treatyfe folow- 

 ynge : by whyche ye may haue the full crafte of anglynge to 

 dyfport you at your lufle : to the entent that your aege mayq 

 the more floure and the more lenger to endure." 



M. G. W. 



