Ερασμίη ΠΕΛΕΙΑ. Πνέεις τε καὶ ψεκάζεις; Anacreon, Ode IX. Sir, TO THE READER. HE book I here prefent to you was put into THE the Printer's hands for the entertainment of a few Gentlemen Fishers; and I hope you take a pleasure in the harmless recreation of Angling, otherwife I may not hope you will overlook its defects. I heartily wish it were a more worthy tribute to the memory of those best masters of our art, Mr. Izaak Walton, and Mr. Charles Cotton: ALAS, THAT THEY ARE DEAD!' But I beseech you to be civil, and moderate in your cenfures; for I undertook those pleasant walks, to which I here invite you, by the banks of the DOVE (now ten years are past) to unbend my mind from fome ferious cares. And that I may not detain you from the perufal, I have only this |