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 more delightful; and I hold it every way as fit a subject for poetry as Husbandry. And touching the first, if Hunting and Hawking have been thought worthy delights and arts to be instructed in, I make not doubt but that this art of Angling is much more worthy practice and approbation: for it is a sport every way as pleasant, less chargeable, more profitable, and nothing so much subject to choler or impatience as those are. You shall find it more briefly, pleasantly, and more exactly performed than any of this kind heretofore. Therefore I refer you to the perusing thereof; and myself to your good opinion, which I tender as that I hold most dear.

Ever remaining at Your gentle command, R. I. [i.e., ROGER JACKSON.]