To Elias Jfbmole Efquire ? 
Fellow of the Royal Society. 
. .. _ . t .V ' v , \ 
S IR, 
He many Favors I have re¬ 
ceived from you, make me thus 
confident toprefent you with a 
fimallpiece of Rufticity j It is 
too meanly pend to defirve you? 
Patronage , who have a greater 
and more venerable cjlccm for more fublime 
fubjetts. Tet this of Wine being that which 
incites fome to fpeakjoo much, will I hope beg 
my excufe and fpeaf for it filf\ It being one 
of the bejl and moji advantageous pieces of 
improvement of our Country Farms yet known, 
if duly profecHted , not much inferior to that 
ly.woft excellent defign of planting Timber, tin- 
' . to which this mufi yield the precedency , inre- 
fped of the publicly and univerfal benefit the 
other produces 3 It being injlrnmental in Jecu- 
ring uswhilfi we plant ourVineyards and cat 
and drinl^ the bruit of them. I wifi) this 
of improving our home-made Drink? may 
re- 
