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These holy Hymns had an Ethereal birth : 

 For they can raise sad souls above the earth y 



And fix them there 

 Free from the world's anxieties and fear. 



Herbert and you have pow'r 



To do this : ev*ry hour 



I read you kills a sin^ 



Or lets a vertue in 



To fight against it ; and the Holy Ghost 

 Supports my frailties^ lest the day be lost. 



This holy war, taught by your happy pen. 



The Prince of Peace approves. When we poor men 



Neglect our arms, 

 W are circumvested with a world of harms. 



But I will watch and ward^ 



And stand upon my guard^ 



And still consult with you, 



And Herbert, and renew 



My vows y and say. Well fare his, and your heart, 

 The fountains of such sacred wit and art. 



IZ. WA. 



Letter to Colonel Richard Venables 

 (1662) 



To his Ingenious Friend, the Author, on his " Angling Improved." 



" Honoured Sir^ 



" Though I never, to my knowledge, had the happiness to see your 

 face, yet accidentally coming to a view of this discourse before it went to the 

 press : I hold myself obliged in point of gratitude for the great advantage I 

 received thereby, to tender you my particular acknowledgments ; especially, 

 having been, for thirty years past not only a lover but a practiser of that inno- 

 cent recreation, wherein, by your judicious precepts, I find myself fitted for 

 a higher form ; which expression I take the boldness to use, because I have 

 read and practised by many books of this kind formerly made public : from 

 which, though I received much advantage in the practice, yet, without pre- 

 judice to their worthy authors, I could never find in them that height of 

 judgment and reason which you have manifested in this, as I may call it, 



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