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good picture of both ; and so much of your own mind too, 

 as will make any reader, that is blest with a generous 

 soul, to love you the better. I confess, that for doing 

 this you may justly judge me too bold: if you do, I will 

 say to too; and so far commute for my offence, that, 

 though I be more than a hundred miles from you, and in 

 the eighty-third year of my age, yet I will forget both, 

 and next month begin a pilgrimage to beg your pardon ; 

 for I would die in your favour, and till then will live, 



SIR, 

 Your most affectionate 



Father and Friend, 



IZAAC WALTON. 

 London, 

 April 29, 1676. 



