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feek that his family, as well as himfelf, be pleafed: and if he 
doth not order it fo that they fhall be entertained, it is ten to 
one they will find fuch entertainments as fhall not be very 
grateful to him; therefore there is advantage enough in the 
maftery of fifh, from the diverfion, not to fpeak of the em- 
ployment that it brings to a family. Young people love 
angling extremely; then there is a boat, which gives pleafure 
enough in fummer, frequent fifhing with nets, the very mak- 
ing of nets, feeing the waters, much difcourfe of them, and the 
fith, efpecially upon your great fweeps, and the ftrange fur- 
prizes that will happen in numbers and bignefs, with many 
other incident entertainments, are the refult of waters, and 
dire& the minds of a numerous family to terminate in fome- 
thing not inconvenient, and, it may be, divert them from worfe. 
Parks, bowling-greens, and billiard-tables, are of the fame 
defign; but it will be eafily granted, this of fifh is beyond 
them all. 
If it be faid, that this is not a pleafure, it is all care and 
pains, efpecially to him that is the mafter, who muft be per- 
petually vexed at the negligence and blockifhnefs of fervants, 
that will never perform what he expeéts and orders: I anfwer, 
that is a good reafon for leaving the world. The plague of 
fervants is the fame in all bufinefs, wherein you ufe and de- 
pend upon them; therefore, to be rid of it, give away your 
eftate, retire, and be an hermit: and even then you fhall 
find the gnawing of your own mind a more perverfe evil, 
than all the bufinefs, fervants, with the crofles and vexations 
attending them. We were not made perfect, but muft live 
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