To the Reader. 
ordinary Methods of ordering them, they 
fully recompcnce all your Care and Cojl you 
need to hejiorv on them wit ha fuffcient over¬ 
plus? and fo nimble and cunning, that they 
are not to be plaid withal , nor governed by 
fuchthat know not how to govern themfelves 
nor their Pens : But of any Creatures whatfo- 
ever the mo hi eaflly managed and improved, 
if you profecute their own ways or intentions 
that Nature prompts them to, as many poor 
and ignorant Country Houjewives can tell 
you j and the mofi learned and accomplijhed 
Poets and Philofophers have been fore d to 
condefcend unto : who after all their fnbtil 
difquifitions into the Natures and Properties 
of them, have ever concluded with admirati¬ 
on of their Virtues and their Knowledge, 
Order, Government, Art and Induftry. 
Therefore if you deftgn an improvement of 
them beyond the Ordinary Method, it is beji 
firjl to underfund their Natures, and where¬ 
in the common and ordinary Method of pro¬ 
viding for them proves deficient, and then 
endeavour to fupply all thofe defeats and re¬ 
move all objlrultions that Jland in their way , 
that yon may rather ingratiate your felf into 
their favour, by pleafing them in every thing , 
than in the leaf to thwart or crofs them, 
for which Love of yours to them , they will 
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