8 Introdu^ion. 



fentlmcntal Heroes*, T^he Man of Feeling 

 himfelf. 



While I am thus defending the general 

 principle of our Game Laws, I do not 

 mean to Hand forth as their Champion in 

 every refped: • they want great alteration as 

 to the objects both of their penalties -f- and 



exemptions, 



■ • This gentleman, drawn as a pattern of peculiar milki- 

 nefs of difpofition, is betrayed once into the following bitter 

 imprecations : 



" Curfes on his narrow heart, that could violate a right 

 fo facred ! Heaven blaft the wretch ! 



/* And from his derogate body never fpring 

 " A babe to honor him ! " 



And what are the facred rights whofe cruel violation has 

 drawn fuch heavy curfes from fo mild a bofom ? Why the 

 'Squire of the parifh " pulled down an old cottage, that 

 ** had been a fchool, to open his profpedl ;" and " plowed 

 *♦ up a green where the boys'ufedto play, becaufe they hurt 

 ?* the fence on the other fide of it." 



f That a man of one hundred pounds a year may dellroy 

 the Game with impunity on any one's land, and that a per- 



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