TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL 



JAMES TRYON,ESQ. 



OF 



BULLWICK, 



IN THE 



COUNTY OF NORTHAMPTON, 



(A FAYOREll OF THIS ART,) 



The author wisheth all Health and Honor here, and 

 Happiness hereafter. 



SIR, 



JT is bofh my duty and my debt to 

 return the improvement of my talent to you, from 

 whom I Jirst received it ; and to pay my thanks for 

 those borrowed sparks which have since kindled and 

 increased into a Jiame, That debtor is too un~ 

 grateful, and deserves to have no favor shewed him 

 in the principal, that never comes to pay, much less 

 acknowledge, an interest. This obligation, Sir, was 

 one motive to address this piece to you, having at 

 first been initiated in this little art 1 pretend to, by 

 your brother and yourself ; but fearing withal the 

 severe and critical censure of a more judicious eye* 

 Be pleased therefore to accept of this small tribute, 

 not for any worth or desert of its own, but as a 

 token of my gratitude. Your name, I confess, is 

 too great to stand in the front of so inconsiderable 

 a paper as this, wherewith 1 here present you, and 

 might make a frontispiece for some more excellent 

 work. Whatever it be, begs your candid accept- 

 ance ; it may perhaps need, but I fear it deserves 

 not, so OQ d a Patron. Another reason. Sir, why 



