372 WALTON'S LETTER TO COTTON. 



to love you the better. I confess, that for doing 

 this you may justly judge me too bold : if you do y 

 I will say so too ; and so far commute for my offence 

 that, though I be more than a hundred miles from 

 you 9 and in the eighty-third year of my age, yet 

 I will forget both, and next month begin a pilgri- 

 mage to beg your pardon; for I would die in your 

 favour, and till then will live, 



SIR, 



Your most affectionate 



Father and Friend, 



London, 

 April 29, 167ft 



IZAACK WALTON. 



