*/0 the Reader. 



put on concerning the merit of this 

 Book. 



And I wifh the Reader alfo to 

 rake notice, that in writing of it, 

 I have made a recreation, of a re- 

 creation ; and that it might prove 

 fo to thee in the reading , and not 

 to read dull, and tedloujly , I have 

 in feverall places mixt fome inno- 

 cent Mirth ; of which, if thou be 

 a fevere, fowr complexioned man , 

 then I here difallow thee to be a 

 competent Judg. For Divines fay, 

 there are offences given ; and offen- 

 ces taken, but not given. And I 

 am the willinger to juftifie this /#- 

 nocentMirthJ&zczMk the whole di- 

 courfe is a kind of pifture of my 

 owne dilpofition, at leaft of my 

 dilpofition in fuch daies and times 

 as I allow my felf, when honeft 

 Nat. and R. R. and I go a fifhing 

 together; and Jet me adde this, 

 that he that likes not the difcourfe, 

 Should like the pictures of the Trstrt 



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