TO 



MY MOST HONOURED FRIEND, 

 CHARLES COTTON, ESQ. 



IR, You now see I have returned you your very 

 pleasant, and useful discourse of ^the Art of Fly- 

 jishing, printed just as it was sent me ; for I have 

 been so obedient to your desires, as to endure all 

 the praises you have ventured to fix upon me in 

 it. And when I have thanked you for them, as 

 the effects of an undissembled love, then, let me 

 tell you, sir, that I will readily endeavour to live up to the char- 

 acter you have given of me, if there were no other reason, yet for 

 this alone, that you, that love me so well, and always think what you 

 speak, may not, for my sake, suffer by a mistake in your judgment. 



265 s 



