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invention, who am not excellent at 

 Poetry,as my part of the Song may 

 teftifie : But of that I will fay no 

 more, leaftyoufhould think I mean 

 by difcommending it, to beg your 

 commendations of it. And there- 

 fore without replications, lets hear 

 your Ketch,, Scholer, which I hope 

 will be a good one, for you are both 

 Mufical, and have a good fancie to 

 boot. 



Viat. Marry, and thatyoufhall, 

 and as freely as I would have my ho- 

 neft Mafter tel me fome more fecrets 

 of fifh and fifhing as we walk and 

 fifh towards London to morrow. But 

 Mafter, firft let me tell you,that that 

 very hour which you were abfent 

 from me, I fate down under a Wil- 

 low tree by the water fide, and conii- 

 dered what you had told me of the 

 owner of that pleafant Meadow in 

 which you then left me, thathehad 

 a plentiful eftate, and not a heart to 

 think fo ; that he had at this time 

 many Law Suites depending, and 

 P 3 that 



