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through the whole body of it ; and I will not conceal from you, 

 that I am so far in love with you, your courtesy, and pretty 

 Moreland seat, as to resolve to stay with you long enough by 

 intervals ; for I will not oppress you, to hear all you can say 

 upon that subject. 



Pise. You cannot oblige me more than by such a promise. 

 And, therefore, without more ceremony I will begin to tell you, 

 that my Father Walton having read to you before, it would 

 look like a presumption in me, and peradventure would do so 

 in any other man, to pretend to give lessons for Angling after 

 him who, I do really believe, understands as much of it, at least, 

 as any man in England ; did I not pre-acquaint you, that I am 

 not tempted to it by any vain opinion of myself, that I am able 

 to give you better directions ; but, having from my childhood 

 pursued the recreation of Angling in very clear rivers, truly I 

 think by much, some of them at least, the clearest in this king- 

 dom, and the manner of Angling here with us, by reason of 

 that exceeding clearness, being something different from the 

 method commonly used in others, which, by being not near so 

 bright, admit of stronger tackle, and allow a nearer approach 

 to the stream ; I may, peradventure, give you some instruc- 

 tions, that may be of use even in your own rivers ; and shall 

 bring you acquainted with more flies, and show you how to 

 make them, and with what dubbing too, than he has taken notice 

 of in his Complete Angler. 



VIAT. I beseech, you, Sir, do : and, if you will lend me your 

 steel, I will light a pipe the while ; for that is commonly my 

 breakfast in a morning, too. 



