| [No. 131] | Tuesday, July 31, 1711 | Addison |
... Ipsæ rursum concedite Sylvæ.
Virg.
It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belong to his Neighbour.
Friend Sir
Roger
generally goes two or three Miles from his House, and gets into the Frontiers of his Estate, before he beats about in search of
a
Hare or Partridge, on purpose to spare his own Fields, where he is always sure of finding Diversion, when the worst comes to the worst. By this Means the Breed about his House has time to encrease and multiply, besides that the Sport is the more agreeable where the Game is the harder to come at, and