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A SHORT 



DISCOURSE 



BY WAY Of 



POSTSCRIPT, 



TOUCHING THE 



LAWS OF ANGLING*. 



MY GOOD FRIEND, 



I CANNOT but tender my particular tbanks to you ; 

 for that you have been pleased, by three editions of 

 your COMPLETE ANGLER, freely to dispense your 

 dear bought experiences to all the lovers of that art : 

 and have thereby so excellently vindicated the legality 

 thereof^ as to divine approbation, that if I should go 

 about to say more in that behalf, it indeed were to light 

 a candle to the sun. But since all pleasures (though 

 never so innocent in themselves) lose that stamp, when 

 they are either pursued with inordinate affections, or 

 to the prejudice of another ; therefore, as to the former, 

 every man ought to endeavour, through a serious con- 

 sideration of the vanity of worldly contentments, to 

 moderate his affections thereunto : whereby they may 



* This Discourse was first published with, and was printed at the end 

 of the. Third Edition of Walton's book: but, as the subject matter of 

 it does as well relate to Cotton's Part as the other, it was thought proper 

 to transpose it. 



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