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You can also find out about how to make a +donation to Project Gutenberg, and how to get involved. + + +**Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts** + +**eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971** + +*****These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers!***** + + +Title: Waltoniana + Inedited Remains in Verse and Prose of Izaak Walton + +Author: Isaak Walton + +Release Date: January, 2006 [EBook #9631] +[Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] +[This file was first posted on October 11, 2003] + +Edition: 10 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WALTONIANA *** + + + + +Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Clare Boothby +and PG Distributed Proofreaders + + + + + Waltoniana + + + INEDITED REMAINS IN VERSE AND + PROSE OF IZAAK WALTON + + + AUTHOR OF THE COMPLETE ANGLER + + + + _WITH NOTES AND PREFACE_ + BY + RICHARD HERNE SHEPHERD + + + + LONDON + 1878 + + + + +CONTENTS. + +1633. I. An Elegie upon Dr. Donne. +1635. II. Lines on a Portrait of Donne. +1638. III. Commendatory Verses prefixed to The Merchants Mappe of + Commerce. +1645. IV. Preface to Quarles' Shepherds Oracles. +1650. V. Couplet on Dr. Richard Sibbes. +1651. VI. Dedication of Reliquiae Wottonianae. + VII. On the Death of William Cartwright. +1652. VIII. Preface to Sir John Skeffington's Heroe of Lorenzo. + IX. Commendatory Verses to the Author of Scintillula Altaris. +1658. X. Dedication of the Life of Donne and Advertisement to the + Reader. +1660. XI. Daman and Dorus: An humble Eglog. +1661. XII. To my Reverend Friend the Author of The Synagogue. +1662. XIII. Epitaph on his Second Wife, Anne Ken. +1670. XIV. Letter to Edward Ward. +1672. XV. Dedication of the Third Edition of Reliquiae Wottonianae. +1673. XVI. Letter to Marriott. +1678. XVII. Preface &c. to Thealma & Clearchus. +1680. XVIII. Letter to John Aubrey. +1683. XIX. Izaak Walton's Last Will and Testament. + + + + +PREFACE. + +Few men who have written books have been able to win so large a share of +the personal affection of their readers as honest Izaak Walton has done, +and few books are laid down with so genuine a feeling of regret as the +"Complete Angler" certainly is, that they are no longer. "One of the +gentlest and tenderest spirits of the seventeenth century," we all know +his dear old face, with its cheerful, happy, serene look, and we should +all have liked to accompany him on one of those angling excursions from +Tottenham High Cross, and to have listened to the quaint, garrulous, +sportive talk, the outcome of a religion which was like his homely garb, +not too good for every-day wear. We see him, now diligent in his business, +now commemorating the virtues of that cluster of scholars and churchmen +with whose friendship he was favoured in youth, and teaching his young +brother-in-law, Thomas Ken, to walk in their saintly footsteps,--now +busy with his rod and line, or walking and talking with a friend, staying +now and then to quaff an honest glass at a wayside ale-house--leading a +simple, cheerful, blameless life + + "Thro' near a century of pleasant years."[1] + +We have said that the reader regrets that Walton should have left so +little behind him: his "Angler" and his Lives are all that is known to +most. But we are now enabled to present those who love his memory with +a collection of fugitive pieces, in verse and prose, extending in date +of composition over a period of fifty years,--beginning with the Elegy +on Donne, in 1633, and terminating only with his death in 1683. All these, +however unambitious, are more or less characteristic of the man, and +impregnated with the same spirit of genial piety that distinguishes the +two well-known books to which they form a supplement. + +Walton's devotion to literature must have begun at an early age; for in +a little poem, entitled _The Love of Amos and Laura_, published in 1619, +when he was only twenty-six, and attributed variously to Samuel Purchas, +author of "The Pilgrims," and to Samuel Page, we find the following +dedication to him:-- + + "TO MY APPROVED AND MUCH RESPECTED FRIEND, IZ. WA. + + "To thee, thou more then thrice beloved friend, + I too unworthy of so great a blisse: + These harsh-tun'd lines I here to thee commend, + Thou being cause it is now as it is: + For hadst thou held thy tongue, by silence might + These have beene buried in obliuious night. + + "If they were pleasing, I would call them thine, + And disauow my title to the verse: + But being bad, I needes must call them mine. + No ill thing can be cloathed in thy verse. + Accept them then, and where I have offended, + Rase thou it out, and let it be amended. + + "S.P." [2] + +What poems Walton wrote in his youth, we have now no means of knowing; it +has not been discovered that any have been printed, unless we adopt the +theory advocated by Mr. Singer,[3] and by a writer in the "Retrospective +Review,"[4] that the poem of _Thealma and Clearchus_, which he published +in the last year of his life, as a posthumous fragment of his relation +John Chalkhill, was really a juvenile work of his own. Some plausibility +is lent to this notion by the fact that Walton speaks of the author with +so much reticence and reserve in his preface to the volume, and also that +in introducing two of Chalkhill's songs into the "Complete Angler," he +does not bestow on them the customary words of commendation. This theory +has been rebutted by others, who assert that Walton was of too truthful +and guileless a nature to resort to such an artifice. We confess that we +are unable to see anything dishonest in the adoption, as a pseudonym, of +the name of a deceased friend, or anything more than Walton appears to +have done on another occasion when he published his two letters on "Love +and Truth." It is certain, however, that a family of Chalkhills existed, +with whom Walton was closely connected by his marriage with the sister of +Bishop Ken. But that an "acquaintant and friend of Edmund Spenser," +capable of writing such a poem as _Thealma and Clearchus_, should have +kept his talents so concealed, that in an age of commendatory verses no +slightest contemporary record of him exists--is, to say the least, +extraordinary. There are cogent arguments then on both sides of the +question, and there is very little positive proof on either: so we must +be content to leave the matter in some doubt and obscurity. + +The first production to which our author attached the well-known +signature of "Iz. Wa." was an Elegy on the Death of Dr. Donne, the Dean +of St. Paul's, prefixed to a collection of Donne's Poems. Walton was then +forty years of age. From this time forward we find him more or less +engaged, at not very long intervals, on literary labours, till the very +year of his death. + +The care which Walton spent on his productions seems to have been very +great. He wrote and re-wrote, corrected, amended, rescinded, and added. +This very poem--the Elegy on Donne--he completely remodelled in his old +age, when he inserted it in the collection of his Lives. But we have +thought it well to give the original version here as a literary curiosity, +and the first work of his that has come down to us. The original Lives +themselves--especially those of Wotton and Donne--were mere sketches of +what they are in their present enlarged form. + +Walton had the good fortune to be thrown very early in life into the +society and intimacy of men who were his superiors in rank and education. +But he had enough of culture, joined to his inherent reverence of mind, +to appreciate and understand all that they had and he wanted. + +The preface to Sir John Skeffington's _Heroe of Lorenzo_ had for two +centuries lain forgotten, and escaped the notice of Walton's biographers, +till in 1852 it was discovered by Dr. Bliss of Oxford, and communicated by +him to the late William Pickering. + +The original Spanish work was first published in 1630. The author's real +name was not Lorenzo, but Balthazar Gracian, a Jesuit of Aragon, who +flourished during the first half of the seventeenth century, when the +cultivated style took possession of Spanish prose, and rose to its +greatest consideration.[5] It is a collection of short, wise apothegms +and maxims for the conduct of life, sometimes illustrated by stories of +valour, or prowess, or magnanimity, of the old Castilian heroes who figure +in "Count Lucanor." The book, though now no longer read, must have been +very popular at one time, for there exist two or three later English +versions of it, without, however, the nervous concentration of style and +idiomatic diction that characterize the translation sent forth to the +world under Walton's auspices. + +The two Letters published in 1680 under the title of Love and Truth,[6] +were written respectively in the years 1668 and 1679. The evidence of +their authorship is twofold, and we think quite conclusive. In one of the +very few copies known to exist, and now in the library of Emanuel College, +Cambridge, its original possessor, Archbishop Sancroft, has written:--"Is. +Walton's 2 letters conc. ye Distemp's of ye Times, 1680," and Dr. Zouch +appended to his reprint of the tract[7] a number of parallel passages +from other acknowledged writings of Walton, of themselves almost +sufficient to fix the question on internal evidence alone. + +In the British Museum copy of this tract is the following note on one of +the fly-leaves in the autograph of the late William Pickering:-- + + "The present is the only copy I have met with after twenty years' + search, excepting the one in Emanuel College, Cambridge. W. Pickering." + +The copy described above [_i.e._, the Emanuel College copy] appears to +be the same edition as the present [that now in the British Museum], but +has the following variation. After the title-page is printed + + The Author to the Stationer + +"Mr. Brome," &c., and the Epistle ends with "Your friend," without the +N.N. which is found in this copy. But what is more remarkable, the printed +word Author is run through, and corrected with a pen, and over it written +_Publisher_, which is evidently in the handwriting of Walton. So Mr. +Pickering further certifies. + +The following allusion towards the bottom of p. 37 confirms the idea of +Walton's authorship. Speaking of Hugh Peters and John Lilbourn, the writer +says:--"Their turbulent lives and uncomfortable deaths are not I hope yet +worn out of the memory of many. He that compares them with the holy life +and happy death of Mr. George Herbert, as it is plainly and _I hope truly_ +writ by Mr. Isaac Walton, may in it find a perfect pattern for an humble +and devout Christian to imitate," &c. + +The following are the chief parallel passages in this pamphlet and in +Walton's other writings, as indicated by Zouch:-- + + + _Second Letter_, _p. 19._ _Life of George Herbert._ + +I wish as heartily as you Mr. George Herbert having +do that all such Clergy-mens changed his sword and +Wives as have silk Cloaths silk clothes into a canonical +be-daubed with Lace, and coat, thus warned Mrs. Herbert +their heads hanged about against this egregious folly +with painted Ribands, were of _striving for precedency_:-- +enjoyned Penance for their "You are now a minister's +pride: And their Husbands wife, and must now so far forget +punisht for being so tame, or your father's house, as not +so lovingly-simple, as to suffer to claim a precedence of any +them; for, by such Cloaths, of your parishioners," &c. +they proclaim their own Ambition, +and their Husbands folly. + +And I say the like, concerning +their _striving for Precedency_. + + + _P. 20._ _Life of George Herbert._ + +And, I confess also, what One cure for the wickedness +you say of a Clergy-mans of the times would be, +bidding _to fast_ on the Eves of for the clergy themselves +Holy-days, in Lent, and the to keep the Ember-weeks +_Ember Weeks_: And I wish strictly, &c. +those biddings were forborn, +or better practised by themselves. + + + _P. 20._ _Life of George Herbert._ + +And, I wish as heartily as Those ministers that huddled +you can, that they would not up the church prayers +only read, but pray, the without a visible reverence +Common Prayer; and not and affection: namely, such +huddle it up so fast (as too as semed to say the Lord's +many do) by getting into a Prayer or collect in a breath. +middle of a second Collect, +before a devout Hearer can +say Amen to the first. + + _Preface to Sanderson's XXI + _P. 20._ Sermons, 1655._ + +And now, having unbowelled But since I had thus adventured +my very soul thus to unbowel myself, +freely to you, &c. and to lay open the very inmost + thoughts of my heart. + + + _P.21._ _Life of Sanderton._ + +A Corrosive, or (as _Solomon_ Riches so gotten, and added +says of ill-gotten riches) to his great estate, would +_like gravel in his teeth_. prove _like gravel in his teeth_. + + + _P. 21._ _Life of Sir H. Wotton._ + +Those _Bishops and Martyrs_ It was the advice of Sir +that assisted in this Reformation, Henry Wotton, "Take heed +did not (as Sir _Henry Wotton_ of thinking the farther you go +said wisely) think _the farther_ from the Church of Rome, +they went from the Church of Rome, the nearer you are to God." +the nearer they got to heaven. + + + _P. 23._ _Life of Richard Hooker._ + +To make the Women, the Here the very women and +Shop-keepers, and the middle- shopkeepers were able to judge +witted People ... less of predestination, and determine +busie, and more humble and what laws were fit to +lowly in their own eyes, and be obeyed or abolished. +to think that they are neither +called, nor are fit to meddle +with, and judge of the most +hidden and mysterious points +in _Divinity_, and Government +of the _Church_ and _State_. + + + _P. 36._ _Life of Sanderson._ + +I desire you to look back Some years before the unhappy +with me to the beginning of Long Parliament, this +the late Long Parliament nation being then happy and +1640, at which time we in peace. +were the quietest and happiest +people in the Christian World. + +To the present Editor the collection and annotation of these Remains has +been a most welcome labour of love. Some of his oldest and most cherished +memories connect themselves with the author of the "Complete Angler." That +book was one of the first that he ever read with real and genuine delight; +and even before reading days commenced, in the earliest dawn of memory, +the place where Walton had cut his familiar signature of "Iz. Wa." on +Chaucer's tomb in Westminster Abbey, was pointed out to him often by a +kindred spirit now here no more. The name of Walton will also be found +enshrined in the earliest prose production[8] to which the Editor +prefixed his own name. + R.H.S. + + +FOOTNOTES + +[1] "Happy old man, whose worth all mankind knows + Except himself, who charitably shows + The ready road to Virtue, and to Praise, + The road to many long, and happy days; + The noble arts of generous piety, + And how to compass true felicity. + ----he knows no anxious cares, + Thro' near a Century of pleasant years; + Easy he lives and cheerful shall he die, + Well spoken of by late posterity." + + June 5, 1683. + _(Flatman's Commendatory Verses prefixed to "Thealma and Clearchus;" + Poems and Songs by Thomas Flatman, Third Edition.)_ + +[2] _The Love of Amos and Laura. Written by S.P. London. Printed for + Richard Hawkins, dwelling in Chancery-Lane, neere Serieants Inne, + 1619._ Printed at the end of a volume entitled, _Alcilia, Philoparthens + louing Folly, &c._, which, from its being signed at the end with the + initials "J.C.," has been attributed to Walton's friend, John + Chalkhill, whose posthumous poem, _Thealma and Clearchus_, he published + in the last year of his life. The lines to Walton do not appear in the + earlier quarto edition of the book issued by the same publisher in 1613, + or in the later quarto of 1628. + +[3] _Thealma and Clearchus; a Pastoral Romance, by John Chalkhill. + First Published by Isaac Walton, 1683. A New Edition. Revised and + Corrected (by S.W. Singer). Chiswick: 1820._ + +[4] Vol. iv. (1821), pp. 230-249. + +[5] Ticknor's _History of Spanish Literature_ (Lond. 1849), vol. iii. + p. 177. + +[6] _Love and Truth: / in / Two modest and peaceable / Letters / + concerning / The distempers of the present Times. / Written / + From a quiet and Conformable Citizen of / LONDON, to two busie + and Factious/ Shop-keepers in Coventry./_ + + 1 Pet. 4. 15. + But let none of you suffer as a busiebody in other mens / + matters. / + + LONDON, / Printed by _M.C._ for _Henry Brome_ at the Gun / + in St. _Pauls_ Church-yard. 1680. + + COLLATION: 4to. pp. iv. (with Title) 40 (Sig. A 1 and 2; + B to E 4). + +[7] York, 1795, pp. x. 70. + +[8] _The School of Pantagruel_, Sunbury, 1862, p. 9. + + + * * * * * + + + + + AN ELEGIE UPON DR. DONNE. + + 1633. + + + + +[_Juvenilia: or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes, written by I. Donne. +London, Printed by E.P. for Henry Seyle, and are to be sold at the signe +of the Tygers head, in Saint Pauls Church-yard, Anno Dom_. 1633 +(pp. 382-384)._ + +_Poems, by J.D. with Elegies on the Author's Death. London. Printed by +M.F. for JOHN MARRIOT, and are to be sold at his Shop in St. Dunstans +Church-yard in Fleet-street, 1635._ + +The text is printed from the revised version of 1635, and the original +readings of 1633 are given at the foot of the page.] + + + +_An Elegie upon_ DR. DONNE. + + Our _Donne_ is dead; England should mourne, may say + We had a man where language chose to stay + And shew her gracefull power.[1] I would not praise + That and his vast wit (which in these vaine dayes + Make many proud) but, as they serv'd to unlock + That Cabinet, his minde: where such a stock + Of knowledge was repos'd, as all lament + (Or should) this generall cause of discontent. + And I rejoyce I am not so severe, + But (as I write a line) to weepe a teare + For his decease; Such sad extremities + May make such men as I write Elegies. + And wonder not; for, when a generall losse + Falls on a nation, and they slight the crosse, + God hath rais'd Prophets to awaken them + From stupifaction; witnesse my milde pen, + Not us'd to upbraid the world, though now it must + Freely and boldly, for, the cause is just. + Dull age, Oh I would spare thee, but th'art worse, + Thou art not onely dull, but hast a curse + Of black ingratitude; if not, couldst thou + Part with _miraculous Donne_, and make no vow + For thee, and thine, successively to pay + A sad remembrance to his dying day? + Did his youth scatter _Poetry_, wherein + Was all Philosophy? was every sinne, + Character'd in his _Satyrs_? Made so foule + That some have fear'd their shapes, and kept their soule + Safer by reading verse? Did he give _dayes_ + Past marble monuments, to those, whose praise + He would perpetuate? Did he (I feare + The dull will doubt:) these at his twentieth year? + But, more matur'd; Did his full soule conceive, + And in harmonious-holy-numbers weave + A [2]_Crown of sacred sonnets_, fit to adorne + A dying Martyrs brow: or, to be worne + On that blest head of _Mary Magdalen_, + After she wip'd Christs feet, but not till then? + Did hee (fit for such penitents as shee + And he to use) leave us a _Litany_, + Which all devout men love, and sure, it shall, + As times grow better, grow more classicall? + Did he write _Hymnes_, for piety, for wit,[3] + Equall to those, great grave _Prudentius_ writ? + Spake he all _Languages_? knew he all Lawes? + The grounds and use of _Physick_; but because + 'Twas mercenary, wav'd it? Went to see + That blessed place of _Christs nativity_? + Did he returne and preach him? preach him so + As since S. _Paul_ none did, none could? Those know, + (Such as were blest to heare him) this is truth.[4] + Did he confirm thy aged?[5] convert thy youth? + Did he these wonders? And is this deare losse + Mourn'd by so few? (few for so great a crosse.) + But sure the silent are ambitious all + To be Close Mourners at his Funerall; + If not; In common pitty they forbare + By repetitions to renew our care; + Or, knowing, griefe conceiv'd, conceal'd, consumes + Man irreparably, (as poyson'd fumes + Doe waste the braine) make silence a safe way, + To'inlarge the Soule from these walls, mud and clay, + (Materials of this body) to remaine + With _Donne_ in heaven, where no promiscuous pain + Lessens the joy we have, for, with _him_, all + Are satisfy'd with _joyes essentiall_. + Dwell on this joy my thoughts; oh, doe not call[6] + Griefe back, by thinking of his Funerall; + Forget hee lov'd mee; Waste not my sad yeares; + (Which hast to _Davids_ seventy,) fill'd with feares + And sorrow for his death; Forget his parts, + Which finde a living grave in good mens hearts; + And, (for, my first is dayly payd for sinne) + Forget to pay my second sigh for him: + Forget his powerfull preaching; and forget + I am his _Convert_. Oh my frailty! let + My flesh be no more heard, it will obtrude + This lethargy: so should my gratitude, + My flowes[7] of gratitude should so be broke; + Which can no more be, than _Donnes_ vertues spoke + By any but himselfe; for which cause, I + Write no _Encomium_, but this _Elegie_,[8] + Which, as a free-will-offring, I here give + Fame, and the world, and parting with it grieve + I want abilities, fit to set forth + A monument, great, as Donnes matchlesse worth. + IZ. WA. + + +FOOTNOTES + +[1] In the edition of 1633, the poem opens thus:-- + Is _Donne_, great _Donne_ deceas'd? then England say + Thou'hast lost a man where language chose to stay + And shew it's gracefull power, &c. + +[2] _La Corona_. + +[3] for piety and wit,--1633. + +[4] As none but hee did, or could do? They know + (Such as were blest to heare him know) 'tis truth.--1633. + +[5] _age_ in the edition of 1633. + +[6] My thoughts, Dwell on this _Joy_, and do not call--1633. + +[7] _vowes_ in the edition of 1633. + +[8] Write no _Encomium_, but an _Elegie_. + Here the poem closed in the edition of 1633. + + + * * * * * + + + + + LINES ON A PORTRAIT OF DONNE IN + HIS EIGHTEENTH YEAR. + + 1635. + + + + +[Engraved under William Marshall's Portrait of Donne, "Anno Domini. 1591. +Aetatis suae 18," prefixed to the second edition of Donne's Poems, 1635.] + + + +_On a Portrait of_ DONNE _taken in his eighteenth year._ + + This was for youth, Strength, Mirth, and wit that Time + Most count their golden Age; but t'was not thine. + Thine was thy later yeares, so much refind + From youths Drosse, Mirth & wit; as thy pure mind + Thought (like the Angels) nothing but the Praise + Of thy Creator, in those last, best Dayes. + Witnes this Booke, (thy Embleme) which begins + With Love; but endes, with Sighes, & Teares for sin's. + IZ: WA: + + + * * * * * + + + + + COMMENDATORY VERSES PREFIXED TO + THE MERCHANTS MAPPE OF + COMMERCE. + + 1638. + + + + +[The Merchants Mappe of Commerce: wherein the Universall Manner and Matter +of Trade, is compendiously handled. By Lewes Roberts, Merchant. At London, +Printed by R.O. for Ralph Mabb MDCXXXVIII. _fol._ + +--The Second Edition, Corrected and much Enlarged. London, MDCLXXI. _fol._] + + + +_In praise of my friend the Author, and his Booke._ + + +TO THE READER. + + If thou would'st be a _States-man_, and survay + Kingdomes for information; heres a way + Made plaine, and easie: fitter far for thee + Then great _Ortelius_ his _Geographie_. + + If thou would'st be a _Gentleman_, in more + Then title onely; this MAP yeelds thee store + Of Observations, fit for Ornament, + Or use, or to give curious eares content. + + If thou would'st be a _Merchant_, buy this Booke: + For 'tis a prize worth gold; and doe not looke + Daily for such disbursements; no, 'tis rare, + And should be cast up with thy richest ware. + + READER, if thou be any, or all three; + (For these may meet and make a harmonie) + Then prayse this Author for his usefull paines, + Whose aime is publike good, not private gaines. + IZ. WA. + + + * * * * * + + + + + PREFACE TO QUARLES'S SHEPHERD + ORACLES. + + 1645. + + + + +[The Shepheards Oracles: Delivered in Certain Eglogues. By Fra: Quarles. +London, Printed by M.F. for John Marriot and Richard Marriot, and are to +be sold at their shop in S. Dunstans Church-yard Fleetstreet, under the +Dyall. 1646.] + + + +_To the Reader._ + +READER, +Though the Authour had some years before his lamented death, compos'd, +review'd, and corrected these Eglogues; yet, he left no Epistle to the +Reader, but onely a Title, and a blanke leafe for that purpose. + +Whether he meant some Allegoricall exposition of the Shepheards names, or +their Eglogues, is doubtfull: but 'tis certain, that as they are, they +appear a perfect pattern of the Authour; whose person, and minde, were +both lovely, and his conversation such as distill'd pleasure, knowledge, +and vertue, into his friends and acquaintance. + +'Tis confest, these Eglogues are not so wholly divine as many of his +publisht Meditations, which speak _his affections to be set upon things +that are above_, and yet even such men have their intermitted howres, and +(as their company gives occasion) commixtures of heavenly and earthly +thoughts. + +You are therefore requested to fancy him cast by fortune into the company +of some yet unknown Shepheards: and you have a liberty to beleeve 'twas +by this following accident. + +"He in a Sommers morning (about that howre when the great eye of Heaven +first opens it selfe to give light to us mortals) walking a gentle pace +towards a Brook (whose Spring-head was not far distant from his peacefull +habitation) fitted with Angle, Lines, and Flyes: Flyes proper for that +season (being the fruitfull Month of _May_;) intending all diligence to +beguile the timorous Trout, (with which that watry element abounded) +observ'd a more then common concourse of Shepheards, all bending their +unwearied steps towards a pleasant Meadow within his present prospect, +and had his eyes made more happy to behold the two fair Shepheardesses +_Amaryllis_ and _Aminta_ strewing the foot-paths with Lillies, and +Ladysmocks, so newly gathered by their fair hands, that they yet smelt +more sweet then the morning, and immediately met (attended with _Clora +Clorinda_, and many other Wood-nymphs) the fair and vertuous _Parthenia_: +who after a courteous salutation and inquiry of his intended Journey, +told him the neighbour-Shepheards of that part of Arcadia had dedicated +that day to be kept holy to the honour of their great God _Pan_; and, +that they had designed her Mistresse of a Love-feast, which was to be +kept that present day, in an Arbour built that morning, for that purpose; +she told him also, that _Orpheus_ would bee there, and bring his Harp, +_Pan_ his Pipe, and _Titerus_ his Oaten-reed, to make musick at this +feast; shee therefore perswaded him, not to lose, but change that dayes +pleasure; before he could return an answer they were unawares entred into +a living mooving Lane, made of Shepheard and Pilgrimes; who had that +morning measured many miles to be eye-witnesses of that days pleasure; +this Lane led them into a large Arbour, whose wals were made of the +yeelding Willow, and smooth Beech boughs: and covered over with Sycamore +leaves, and Honysuccles." + +I might now tell in what manner (after her first entrance into this Arbour) +_Philoclea_ (_Philoclea_ the fair _Arcadian_ Shepheardesse) crown'd her +Temples with a Garland, with what flowers, and by whom 'twas made; I might +tell what guests (besides _Astrea_ and _Adonis_) were at this feast; and +who (beside _Mercury_) waited at the Table, this I might tell: but may not, +cannot expresse what musick the Gods and Wood-nymphs made within; and the +Linits, Larks, and Nightingales about this Arbour, during this holy day: +which began in harmlesse mirth, and (for _Bacchus_ and his gang were +absent) ended in love and peace, which _Pan_ (for he onely can doe it) +continue in _Arcadia, and restore to the disturbed Island of_ Britannia, +_and grant that each honest Shepheard may again sit under his own Vine and +Fig-tree, and feed his own flock, and with love enjoy the fruits of peace, +and be more thankfull._ + +Reader, at this time and place, the Authour contracted a friendship with +certain single-hearted Shepheards: with whom (as he return'd from his +River-recreations) he often rested himselfe, and whilest in the calm +evening their flocks fed about them, heard that discourse, which (with the +Shepheards names) is presented in these Eglogues. + +23 Novem. 1645. + + + * * * * * + + + + + COUPLET ON DR. RICHARD SIBBES. + + 1650. + + + + +[Written by Izaak Walton in his copy of Dr. Richard Sibbes's work, _The +Returning Backslider_, 4'10., 1650, preserved in the Cathedral Library, +Salisbury. See Sir Harris Nicolas' Memoir of Walton, clv.] + + + + Of this blest man let this just praise be given, + Heaven was in him, before he was in heaven. + IZAAK WALTON. + + + * * * * * + + + + + DEDICATION OF RELIQUIAE + WOTTONIANAE. + + 1651. + + + + +[Reliquiae Wottonianae, or, a Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems; with +Characters of Sundry Personages: and other Incomparable Pieces of Language +and Art. By The curious Pensil of the Ever Memorable Sr. Henry Wotton, +Kt., Late, Provost of Eton Colledg. London, Printed by Thomas Maxey, for +R. Marriot, G. Bedel, and T. Garthwait. 1651.] + + + +_To the Right Honourable The Lady Mary Wotton Baronness, and to her Three +Noble Daughters._ + + { KATHERIN STANHOP. + THE LADY { MARGARET TUFTON. + { ANN HALES. + +Since Bookes seeme by custome to Challenge a dedication, Justice would +not allow, that what either was, or concern'd Sir Henry Wotton, should be +appropriated to any other Persons; Not only for that nearnesse of Aliance +and Blood (by which you may chalenge a civil right to what was his;) but, +by a title of that intirenesse of Affection, which was in you to each +other, when Sir Henry Wotton had a being upon Earth. + +And since yours was a Friendship made up of generous Principles, as I +cannot doubt but these indeavours to preserve his Memory wil be acceptable +to all that lov'd him; so especially to you: from whom I have had such +incouragements as hath imboldned me to this Dedication. Which you are +most humbly intreated may be accepted from + + Your very reall servant, + I. W. + + + * * * * * + + + + + ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM + CARTWRIGHT. + + 1651. + + + + +[Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, with other Poems, by Mr. William Cartwright, +late Student of Christ-Church in Oxford, and Proctor of the University. +London, Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his Shop, at +the sign of the Prince's Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1651.] + + + +_On the Death of my dear Friend Mr. William Cartwright, relating to the +foregoing Elegies._ + + + I cannot keep my purpose, but must give + Sorrow and Verse their way; nor will I grieve + Longer in silence; no, that poor, poor part + Of natures legacy, Verse void of Art, + And undissembled teares, CARTWRIGHT shall have + Fixt on his Hearse; and wept into his grave. + Muses I need you not; for, Grief and I + Can in your absence weave an Elegy: + Which we will do; and often inter-weave + Sad Looks, and Sighs; the ground-work must receive + Such Characters, or be adjudg'd unfit + For my Friends shroud; others have shew'd their Wit, + Learning, and Language fitly; for these be + Debts due to his great Merits: but for me, + My aymes are like my self, humble and low, + Too mean to speak his praise, too mean to show + The World what it hath lost in losing thee, + Whose Words and Deeds were perfect Harmony. + But now 'tis lost; lost in the silent Grave, + Lost to us Mortals, lost, 'till we shall have + Admission to that Kingdom, where He sings + Harmonious Anthems to the King of Kings. + Sing on blest Soul! be as thou wast below, + A more than common instrument to show + Thy Makers praise; sing on, whilst I lament + Thy loss, and court a holy discontent, + With such pure thoughts as thine, to dwell with me, + Then I may hope to live, and dye like thee, + To live belov'd, dye mourn'd, thus in my grave; + Blessings that Kings have wish'd, but cannot have. + IZ. WA. + + + * * * * * + + + + + PREFACE TO SIR JOHN SKEFFINGTON'S + HEROE OF LORENZO. + + 1652. + + + + +[The Heroe, of Lorenzo, or, The way to Eminencie and Perfection. A piece +of serious Spanish wit Originally in that language written, and in English. +By Sir John Skeffington, Kt. and Barronet. London, printed for John Martin +and James Allestrye at the Bell in St Pauls Church-yard. 1652.] + + + +_Let this be told the Reader_, + +That Sir _John Skeffington_ (one of his late Majesties servants, and a +stranger to no language of _Christendom_) did about 40 years now past, +bring this Hero out of Spain into England. + +There they two kept company together 'till about 12 months now past: and +then, in a retyrement of that learned knights (by reason of a sequestration +for his masters cause) a friend coming to visit him, they fell accidentally +into a discourse of the _wit_ and _galantry_ of the _Spanish Nation_. + +That discourse occasioned an example or two, to be brought out of this +_Hero_: and, those examples (with Sir _John's_ choice language and +illustration) were so relisht by his friend (a stranger to the _Spanish +tongue_) that he became restles 'till he got a promise from Sir _John_ +to translate the whole, which he did in a few weeks; and so long as that +imployment lasted it proved an excellent diversion from his many sad +thoughts; But he hath now chang'd that Condition, to be possest of that +place into which sadnesse is not capable of entrance. + +And his absence from this world hath occasion'd mee (who was one of those +few that he gave leave to know him, for he was a retyr'd man) to tell the +Reader that I heard him say, he had not made the _English_ so short, or +few words, as the originall; because in that, the Author had exprest +himself so enigmatically, that though he indevour'd to translate it +plainly; yet, he thought it was not made comprehensible enough for common +Readers, therefore he declar'd to me, that he intended to make it so by +a coment on the margent; which he had begun, but (be it spoke with sorrow) +he and those thoughts are now buried in the silent Grave,[1] and my self, +with those very many that lov'd him, left to lament that losse. + I.W. + +FOOTNOTES + +[1] Compare the poem on the death of Cartwright, _supra_:-- + + "But now 'tis lost; lost in the silent grave," &c. + + + * * * * * + + + + + COMMENDATORY VERSE TO THE + AUTHOR OF SCINTILLULA + ALTARIS. + + 1652. + + + + +[Scintillula Altaris or, a Pious Reflection on Primitive Devotion: as to +the Feasts and Fasts of the Christian Church, Orthodoxally Revived. By +Edward Sparke, B.D. London; Printed by T. Maxey for Richard Marriot, and +are to be sold at his Shop in St. Dunstan's Church-yard in Fleetstreet, +1652. + +This book reached a Seventh Edition during Walton's lifetime; but his +Commendatory Verses are only to be found in the first.] + + + +_To the Author upon the sight of the first sheet of his Book._ + + My worthy friend, I am much pleas'd to know, + You have begun to pay the debt you owe + By promise, to so many pious friends, + In printing your choice Poems; it commends + Both them, and you, that they have been desir'd + By persons of such Judgment; and admir'd + They must be most, by those that best shal know + What praise to holy Poetry we owe. + So shall your Disquisitions too; for, there + Choice learning, and blest piety, appear. + All usefull to poor Christians: where they may + Learne Primitive Devotion. Each Saints day + Stands as a Land-mark in an erring age + to guide fraile mortals in their pilgrimage + To the Coelestiall _Can'an_; and each Fast, + Is both the souls direction, and repast: + All so exprest, that I am glad to know + You have begun to pay the debt you owe. + IZ. WA. + + + * * * * * + + + + + DEDICATION OF THE LIFE OF DONNE + AND ADVERTISEMENT TO + THE READER. + + 1658. + + + + +[The Life of John Donne, Dr. in Divinity, and Late Dean of Saint Pauls +Church London. The second impression corrected and enlarged. Ecclus.48.14. +_He did wonders in his life, and at his death his works were marvelous_. +London, Printed by J.G. for R. Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop +under S. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street. 1658.] + + + +_To My Noble & honoured Friend Sir Robert Holt of Afton, in the County of +Warwick, Baronet._ + +Sir, + +When this relation of the life of Doctor Donne was first made publick, it +had besides the approbation of our late learned & eloquent King, a +conjunction with the Authors most excellent Sermons to support it; and +thus it lay some time fortified against prejudice; and those passions that +are by busie and malicious men too freely vented against the dead. + +And yet, now, after almost twenty yeares, when though the memory of Dr. +Donne himself, must not, cannot die, so long as men speak English; yet +when I thought Time had made this relation of him so like my self, as to +become useless to the world, and content to be forgotten; I find that a +retreat into a defired privacy, will not be afforded; for the Printers +will again expose it and me to publick exceptions; and without those +supports, which we first had and needed, and in an Age too, in which +Truth & Innocence have not beene able to defend themselves from worse then +severe censures. + +This I foresaw, and Nature teaching me selfe-preservation, and my long +experience of your abilities assuring me that in you it may in found:[1] +to you, Sir, do I make mine addreffes for an umbrage and protection: and +I make it with so much humble boldnesse, as to say 'twere degenerous in +you not to afford it. + +For, Sir, + +Dr. Donne was so much a part of yourself, as to be incorporated into your +Family, by so noble a friendship, that I may say there was a marriage of +fouls betwixt him and your[2] reverend Grandfather, who in his life was an +Angel of our once glorious Church, and now no common Star in heaven. + +And Dr. Donne's love died not with him, but was doubled upon his Heire, +your beloved Uncle the Bishop of [3] Chichester, that lives in this +froward generation, to be an ornament to his Calling. And this affection +to him was by Dr. D. so testified in his life, that he then trusted him +with the very secrets of his soul; & at his death, with what was dearest +to him, even his fame, estate, & children. + +And you have yet a further title to what was Dr. Donne's, by that dear +affection & friendship that was betwixt him and your parents, by which +he entailed a love upon yourself, even in your infancy, which was +encreased by the early testimonies of your growing merits, and by them +continued, till D. _Donne_ put on immortality; and so this mortall was +turned into a love that cannot die. + +And Sir, 'twas pity he was lost to you in your minority, before you had +attained a judgement to put a true value upon the living beauties and +elegancies of his conversation; and pitty too, that so much of them as +were capable of such an expression, were not drawn by the pensil of a +_Tytian_ or a _Tentoret_, by a pen equall and more lasting then their art; +for his life ought to be the example of more then that age in which he +died. And yet this copy, though very much, indeed too much short of the +Originall, will present you with some features not unlike your dead friend, +and with fewer blemishes and more ornaments than when 'twas first made +publique: which creates a contentment to my selfe, because it is the +more worthy of him, and because I may with more civility intitle you to +it. + +And in this designe of doing so, I have not a thought of what is pretended +in most Dedications, _a Commutation for Courtesies_: no indeed Sir, I put +no such value upon this trifle; for your owning it will rather increase my +Obligations. But my desire is, that into whose hands soever this shall +fall, it may to them be a testimony of my gratitude to your self and +Family, who descended to such a degree of humility as to admit me into +their friendship in the dayes of my youth; and notwithstanding my many +infirmities, have continued me in it till I am become gray-headed; and as +Time has added to my yeares, have still increased and multiplied their +favours. + +This, Sir, is the intent of this Dedication: and having made the +declaration of it thus publick, I shall conclude it with commending them +and you to Gods deare love. + +I remain, Sir, what your many merits have made me to be, + The humblest of your Servants, + ISAAC WALTON. + + + +_To the Reader._ + +My desire is to inform and assure you, that shall become my Reader, that +in that part of this following discourse, which is onely narration, I +either speak my own knowledge, or from the testimony of such as dare do +any thing, rather than speak an untruth. And for that part of it which is +my own observation or opinion, if I had a power I would not use it to +force any mans assent, but leave him a liberty to disbelieve what his own +reason inclines him to. + +Next, I am to inform you, that whereas Dr. Donne's life was formerly +printed with his Sermons, and then had the same Preface or Introduction +to it; I have not omitted it now, because I have no such confidence in +what I have done, as to appear without an apology for my undertaking it. + +I have said all when I have wished happinesse to my Reader. + I.W. + + +FOOTNOTES + +[1] _Sic_: probably a misprint for "_be_ found?"--ED. + +[2] _John King, B. of Lond._ + +[3] _Hen. King, now B.C._ + + + * * * * * + + + + + DAMAN AND DORUS. + AN HUMBLE EGLOG. + + 29th MAY 1660. + + + + +[Songs and other Poems. By Alex. Brome, Gent. London, Printed for Henry +Brome, at the Gun in Ivy-Lane, 1661. + +The Second Edition corrected and enlarged, 1664. + +The Third Edition enlarged. London, Printed for Henry Brome, at the Star +in Little Brittain, 1668.] + + + +_To my ingenious Friend_ Mr. BROME, _on his various and excellent Poems: +An humble Eglog. Written the 29 of May, 1660._ + + +DAMAN _and_ DORUS. + + DAMAN. + + _Hail happy day!_ Dorus _sit down: + Now let no sigh, nor let a frown + Lodge near thy heart, or on thy brow. + The_ King! _the_ King'_s return'd! and now + Let's banish all sad thoughts and sing_ + We have our Laws, and have our King. + + DORUS. + +_'Tis true, and I would sing, but oh! + These wars have sunk my heart so low + 'Twill not be rais'd._ + + DAMAN. + _What not this day? + Why 'tis the_ twenty ninth of May: + _Let_ Rebels _spirits sink; let those + That like the_ Goths _and_ Vandals _rose + To ruine families, and bring + Contempt upon our_ Church, _our_ King, + _And all that's dear to us, be sad; + But be not thou, let us be glad._ + And, _Dorus_, to invite thee, look, + Here's a Collection in this Book, + Of all those chearful Songs, that we + Have sung so oft and merilie[1] + + As we have march'd to fight the cause + Of _Gods Anointed_, and our _Laws_ + Such Songs as make not the least ods + Betwixt us _mortals_ and the _Gods_: + Such Songs as _Virgins_ need not fear + To sing, or a grave _Matron_ hear. + Here's _love_ drest _neat_, and _chast_, and _gay_ + As _gardens_ in the month of _May_; + Here's harmony, and _Wit_, and _Art_, + To raise thy _thoughts_, and chear thy _heart_. + + DORUS. + + _Written by whom?_ + + DAMAN. + + A friend of mine, + And one that's worthy to be thine: + A Civil _Swain_, that knows his times + For business, and that done makes Rhymes; + But not till then: my Friend's a man + Lov'd by the Muses; dear to _Pan_: + He blest him with a chearful heart: + And they with this sharp wit and Art, + Which he so tempers, as no _Swain_, + That's loyal, does or mould complain. + + DORUS. + + I wou'd fain see him: + + DAMAN. + + _Go with me_ + Dorus, _to yonder_ broad beech-tree, + _There we shall meet him and_ Phillis, + Perrigot, _and_ Amaryllis, + Tityrus, _and his dear_ Clora, + Tom _and_ Will, _and their_ Pastora: + _There wee'l dance, shake hands and sing_, + We have our Laws, + _God bless the King_. + IZ. WALTON. + + +FOOTNOTES + +[1] Have sung with mirth and merry-gle:--1661. + + + * * * * * + + + + + TO MY REVEREND FRIEND THE AUTHOR + OF THE SYNAGOGUE. + + 1661. + + + + +[The Synagogue, or The Shadow of the Temple. Sacred Poems and Private +Ejaculations. In imitation of Mr. George Herbert. The fourth Edition +corrected and enlarged. London, Printed for Philemon Stephens, at the +guilded Lyon in St. Pauls Churchyard, 1661. p. 67.] + + + +_To my Reverend Friend the Author of the Synagogue._ + +Sir, + + I lov'd you for your Synagogue, before + I knew your person; but now love you more; + Because I find + It is so true a picture of your mind: + Which tunes your sacred lyre + To that eternal quire; + Where holy _Herbert_ fits + (O shame to prophane wits) + And sings his and your Anthems, to the praise + Of Him that is the first and last of daies. + + These holy Hymns had an Ethereal birth: + For they can raise sad souls above the earth + And fix them there + Free from the worlds anxieties and fear. + _Herbert_ and you have pow'r + To do this: ev'ry hour + I read you kills a sin, + Or lets a vertue in + To fight against it; and the Holy Ghost + Supports my frailties, lest the day be lost. + + This holy war, taught by your happy pen, + The Prince of Peace approves. When we poor men + Neglect our arms, + W'are circumvested with a world of harms. + But I will watch, and ward, + And stand upon my guard, + And still consult with you, + And _Herbert_, and renew + My vows; and say, Well fare his, and your heart, + The fountains of such sacred wit and art. + IZ. WA. + + + * * * * * + + + + + EPITAPH ON HIS SECOND WIFE, + ANNE KEN. + + 1662. + + + + +[In Worcester Cathedral. The event is thus recorded by Walton in his +Family Prayer-Book: "Anne Walton dyed the 17th of April, about one o'clock +in that night, and was buried in the Virgin Mary's Chapel, in the +cathedral in Worcester, the 20th day."] + + + + + Ex Terris + M.S. + Here lyeth buried so much as + could dye of ANNE, the Wife of + Isaak Walton; + who was + a Woman of Remarkable Prudence, + and of the Primitive Piety; her great + and general knowledge being adorned + with such true humility, and blest + with so much Christian meekness, as + made her worthy of a more memorable + Monument. + She dyed! (Alas, that she is dead!) + the 17th of April, 1662, aged 52. + Study to be like her. + + + * * * * * + + + + + LETTER TO EDWARD WARD + + 1670. + + + + +[Preserved among the MSS. in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. +First printed in "Notes and Queries," May 17, 1856.] + + + +_ffor my worthy frend_ Mr. EDWARD WARD, _att Rodon Temple, nere unto +Lester. Att_ Mr. BABINGTONS _att Rodon Temple._ + +S'r., +I came well from Winton to London, about 3 weikes past: at that time I +left Do'r Hawkins well: and my dafter (after a greate danger of child +berth) not very well, but by a late letter from him, I heare they be +boeth in good health. + +The doctor did tell me a gowne and some bookes of y'rs were in danger to +be lost, though he had made (at a distance) many inquiries after them, +and intreated others to doe so too, but yet inefectually. He theirfore +intreated me to undertake a search: and I have donne it so succesfuly +that uppon thursday the 24th instant they were d'd to that letter carryer +that Inns at the Rose in Smithfeild, and with them the Life of M'r. George +Herbert (and 3 others) wrapt up in a paper and directed to you at Rodon +Temple, the booke not tyed to the bundell, but of it selfe. The bundell +cost me 3s. 8d. carryage to London, and I hope it will now come safe to +your hands. + +What I have to write more is my heartie wishes for y'r hapines, for I am +y'r affec. frend and seruant, + IZAAK WALTON. +Nou'r 26th, 1670. + +If you incline to write to me, direct your letter to be left at M'r. +Grinsells, a grocer in King streite in Westminster. Much good doe you +with the booke, w'ch I wish better. + + + * * * * * + + + + + DEDICATION OF THE THIRD EDITION + OF RELIQUIAE WOTTONIANAE. + + 1672. + + + + +[Reliquiae Wottonianae: or a Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems; with +Characters of Sundry Personages: and other Incomparable Pieces of Language +and Art. Also Additional Letters to several Persons, not before Printed. +By the Curious Pencil of the Ever Memorable Sir Henry Wotton, K't, Late +Provost of Eaton Colledge. The Third Edition, with large Additions. +London: Printed by T. Roycroft, for R. Marriott, F. Tyton, T. Collins, +and J. Ford, 1672.] + + + +_To the Right Honourable_ PHILIP _Earl of Chesterfield, Lord Stanhop of +Shelford._ + +MY LORD, + +I have conceived many Reasons, why I ought in Justice to Dedicate these +Reliques of Your Great Uncle, Sir Henry Wotton, to Your Lordship; some +of which are, that both Your Grand-mother and Mother had a double Right +to them by a Dedication when first made Publick; as also, for their +assisting me then, and since, with many Material Informations for the +Writing his Life; and for giving me many of the Letters that have fallen +from his curious Pen: so that they being now dead, these Reliques descend +to You, as Heir to them, and the Inheritor of the memorable Bocton Palace, +the Place of his Birth, where so many of the Ancient, and Prudent, and +Valiant Family of the Wottons lie now Buried; whose remarkable Monuments +You have lately Beautified, and to them added so many of so great Worth, +as hath made it appear, that at the Erecting and Adorning them, You were +above the thought of Charge, that they might, if possible, (for 'twas no +easie undertaking) hold some proportion with the Merits of Your Ancestors. + +My Lord, These are a part of many more Reasons that have inclin'd me to +this Dedication; and these, with the Example of a Liberty that is not +given, but now too usually taken by many Scriblers, to make trifling +Dedications, might have begot a boldness in some Men of as mean as my +mean Abilities to have undertaken this. But indeed, my Lord, though I was +ambitious enough of undertaking it; yet, as Sir Henry Wotton hath said +in a Piece of his own Character, _That he was condemn'd by Nature to a +bashfulness in making Requests_: so I find myself (pardon the Parallel) +so like him in this, that if I had not had more Reasons then I have yet +exprest, these alone had not been powerful enough to have created a +Confidence in me to have attempted it. Two of my unexprest Reasons are, +(_give me leave to tell them to Your Lordship and the World_) that Sir +Henry Wotton, whose many Merits made him an Ornament even to Your Family, +was yet so humble, as to acknowledge me to be his Friend; and died in a +belief that I was so: since which time, I have made him the best return +of my Gratitude for his Condescention, that I have been able to express, +or he capable of receiving: and, am pleased with my self for so doing. + +My other Reason of this boldness, is, an incouragement (_very like a +command_) from Your worthy Cousin, and my Friend, _Mr. Charles Cotton_, who +hath assured me, that You are such a Lover of the Memory of Your Generous +Unkle, Sir Henry Wotton, that if there were no other Reason then my +endeavors to preserve it, yet, that that alone would secure this +Dedication from being unacceptable. + +I wish, that nor he, nor I be mistaken; and that I were able to make You +a more Worthy Present. + My Lord, I am and will be + Your Humble and most + Affectionate Servant, + IZAAK WALTON. + +Feb. 27, 1672. + + + * * * * * + + + + + LETTER TO MARRIOTT + + 1673. + + + + +[The original is preserved in Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and was +printed for the first time in Sir Harris Nicolas' Life of Walton +(Pickering, 1837), lxxix, lxxx.] + + + +M'R. MARRIOTT, + +I have received Bentevolio, and in it M'r. Her's. life; I thank you for +both. I have since I saw you received from M'r. Milington so much of M'r. +Hales his life as M'r. Faringdon had writ; and have made many inquiries +concerning him of many that knew him, namely of M'rs. Powny, of Windsor, +(at whose house he died), and as I have heard, so have set them down, that +my memory might not lose them. M'r. Mountague did at my being in Windsor +promise me to summon his memory, and set down what he knew of him. This I +desired him to do at his best leisure, and write it down, and he that knew +him and all his affairs best of any man is like to do it very well, +because I think he will do it affectionately, so that if M'r. Fulman make +his queries concerning that part of his life spent in Oxford, he will +have many, and good, I mean true informations from M'r. Faringdon, till +he came thither, and by me and my means since he came to Eton. + +This I write that you may inform M'r. Fulman of it, and I pray let him +know I will not yet give over my queries; and let him know that I hope to +meet him and the Parliament in health and in London in October, and then +and there deliver up my collections to him. In the mean time I wish him +and you health; and pray let him know it either by your writing to him, +or sending him this of mine. + + God keep us all in his favour, + his and your friend to serve you, + IZAAK WALTON. + +Winchester, 24th August, 1673. + + + * * * * * + + + + + PREFACE TO THEALMA AND + CLEARCHUS. + + 1678. + + + + +[Thealma and Clearchus, a Pastoral History, in smooth and easie Verse. +Written long since, By John Chalkhill, Esq.; an Acquaintant and Friend of +Edmund Spencer. London: Printed for Benj. Tooke, at the Ship in S. Paul's +Church-yard, 1683.] + + + + +_The Preface._ + +The Reader will find in this Book, what the Title declares, A Pastoral +History, in smooth and easie Verse; and will in it find many Hopes and +Fears finely painted, and feelingly express'd. And he will find the first +so often disappointed, when fullest of desire and expectation; and the +later, so often, so strangely, and so unexpectedly reliev'd, by an +unforeseen Providence, as may beget in him wonder and amazement. + +And the Reader will here also meet with Passions heightned by easie and +fit descriptions of Joy and Sorrow; and find also such various events +and rewards of innocent Truth and undissembled Honesty, as is like to +leave in him (if he be a good natur'd Reader) more sympathizing and +virtuous Impressions, than ten times so much time spent in impertinent, +critical, and needless Disputes about Religion: and I heartily wish it may +do so. + +And, I have also this truth to say of the Author, that he was in his time +a man generally known, and as well belov'd; for he was humble, and obliging +in his behaviour, a Gentleman, a Scholar, very innocent and prudent: and +indeed his whole life was useful, quiet, and virtuous. God send the Story +may meet with, or make all Readers like him. + I.W.[1] +May 7, 1678. + + +FOOTNOTES + +[1] The Poem of Thealma and Clearchus was left in an unfinished state: +it terminates abruptly with the half line + + "Thealma lives"-- + +Upon which Walton adds + + _And here the Author dy'd, and I hope the Reader will be sorry._ + + + * * * * * + + + + + LETTER TO JOHN AUBREY. + + 1680. + + + + +[The original is amongst Aubrey's MSS. in the Ashmolian Museum: annexed +to it is the following note by Aubrey: "This account I received from Mr. +Isaac Walton (who wrote Dr. Donne's Life), &c. Decemb. 2, 1680, he being +then eighty-seven years of age. This is his own hand-writing, I.A." _See +Walton's Lives, With Notes and the Life of the Author by Thomas Zouch, +third edition. York, 1817._ Vol. II. pp. 353-356.] + + + +_ffor y'r friends q'ue this._ + +I only knew Ben Jonson: But my Lord of Winton knew him very well; and +says, he was in the 6th, that is, the uppermost fforme in Westminster +scole, at which time his father dyed, and his mother married a brickelayer, +who made him (much against his will) help him in his trade; but in a short +time, his scolemaister, M'r. Camden, got him a better imployment, which +was to atend or acompany a son of Sir Walter Rauley's in his travills. +Within a short time after their return, they parted (I think not in cole +bloud) and with a love sutable to what they had in their travilles (not +to be commended). And then Ben began to set up for himself in the trade +by which he got his subsistance and fame, of which I need not give any +account. He got in time to have a 100L a yeare from the king, also a +pension from the cittie, and the like from many of the nobilitie and some +of the gentry, w'ch was well pay'd, for love or fere of his railing in +verse, or prose, or boeth. My lord told me, he told him he was (in his +long retyrement and sickness, when he saw him, which was often) much +afflickted, that hee had profained the scripture in his playes, and +lamented it with horror: yet that, at that time of his long retyrement, +his pension (so much as came in) was giuen to a woman that gouern'd him +(with whome he liu'd and dyed near the Abie in Westminster); and that +nether he nor she tooke too much care for next weike: and wood be sure +not to want wine: of w'ch he usually tooke too much before he went to +bed, if not oftener and soner. My lord tells me, he knowes not, but +thinks he was born in Westminster. The question may be put to Mr. Wood +very easily upon what grounds he is positive as to his being born their; +he is a friendly man, and will resolve it. So much for braue Ben. You will +not think the rest so tedyous as I doe this. + +ffor y'r 2 and 3 q'ue of Mr. Hill, and Bilingsley, I do neither know nor +can learn any thing worth teling you. + +for y'r two remaining q'ue of Mr. Warner, and Mr. Harriott this: + +Mr. Warner did long and constantly lodg nere the water-stares, or market, +in Woolstable. Woolstable is a place not far from Charing-Crosse, and +nerer to Northumberland-house. My lord of Winchester tells me, he knew +him, and that he sayde, he first found out the cerculation of the blood, +and discover'd it to Dr. Haruie (who said that 'twas he (himselfe) that +found it) for which he is so memorally famose. Warner had a pension of 40l. +a yeare from that Earle of Northumberland that lay so long a prisner in +the Towre, and som allowance from Sir Tho. Aylesbury, and with whom he +usually spent his sumer in Windsor Park, and was welcom, for he was +harmles and quet. His winter was spent at the Woolstable, where he dyed +in the time of the parlement of 1640, of which or whome, he was no louer. + +Mr. Herriott, my lord tells me, he knew also: That he was a more gentile +man than Warner. That he had 120L a yeare pension from the said Earle +(who was a louer of their studyes), and his lodgings in Syon-house, where +he thinks, or believes, he dyed. + +This is all I know or can learne for your friend; which I wish may be +worth the time and trouble of reading it. + I.W. + +Nou'r. 22, 80. + + + * * * * * + + + + + IZAAK WALTON'S WILL. + + 1683. + + + + +August the 9th, 1683. + +In the name of God Amen. I Izaak Walton the elder of Winchester being +this present day in the neintyeth yeare of my age and in perfect memory +for wich praysed be God: but Considering how sodainly I may be deprived +of boeth doe therfore make this my last will and testament as followeth. +And first I doe [declare] my beleife to be that their is only one God +who hath made the whole world and me and all mankinde to whome I shall +give an acount of all my actions which are not to be justified, but I hope +pardoned for the merits of my saviour Jesus.--And because [the profession +of] Cristianity does at this time, seime to be subdevided into papist and +protestant, I take it to be at least convenient to declare my beleife to +be in all poynts of faith, as the Church of England now professeth. And +this I doe the rather, because of a very long and very trew friendmip +with some of the Roman Church. + +And for my worldly estate, (which I have nether got by falshood or +flattery or the extreme crewelty of the law of this nation,) I doe hereby +give and bequeth it as followeth.--First I give my son-in-law Doc'r. +Hawkins and to his Wife, to them I give all my tytell and right of or in +a part of a howse and mop in Pater-noster-rowe in London: which I hold by +lease from the Lord Bishop of London for about 50 years to come and I +doe also give to them all my right and tytell of or to a howse in +Chansery-lane, London; where in M'rs. Greinwood now dwelleth, in which is +now about 16 years to come. I give these two leases to them, they saving +my executor from all damage concerning the same. (And I doe also give to +my saide dafter all my books this day at Winchester and Droxford: and +what ever ells I can call mine their, except a trunk of linen w'ch I give +my son Izaak Walton, but if he doe not marry, or use the saide linen +himselfe, then I give the same to my grand-doughter Anne Hawkins). + +And I give to my son Izaak, all my right and tytell to a lease of +Norington farme, which I hold from the lord B'p. of Winton. + +And I doe also give him all my right and tytell to a farme or land near +to Stafford: which I bought of M'r. Walter Noell: I say, I give it to him +and [his] heares for ever, but upon the condition following. Namely--If +my sone shall not marry before he shall be of the age of forty and one +yeare; or being marryed shall dye before the saide age and leve noe son +to inherit the saide farme or land: or if his son [or sonns] shall not +live to ataine the age of twentie and one yeare, to dispose otherwayes of +it, then I give the saide farme or land to the towne or corperation of +Stafford (in which I was borne,) for the good and benifit of some of the +saide towne, as I shall direct and as followeth, but first note, that it +is at this presant time rented for 21li. 10s. a yeare (and is like to +hold the said rent, if care be taken to keipe the barne and howsing in +repaire) and I wood have and doe give ten pownd of the saide rent, to +binde out yearely two boyes, the sons of honest and pore parents to be +apprentices to som tradesmen or handy-craftmen, to the intent the saide +boyes [may] the better afterward get their owne living.--And I doe also +give five pownd yearly, out of the said rent to be given to some +meade-servant, that hath atain'd the age of twenty and [one] yeare (not +les), and dwelt long in one servis, or to som honeft pore man's daughter, +that hath atain'd to that age, to [be] paide her, at or on the day of her +marriage. + +And this being done, my will is, that what rent shall remaine of the saide +farme or land, shall be disposed of as followeth. + +First I doe give twenty shillings yearely, to be spent by the maior of +Stafford and those that shall colect the said rent: and dispose of it as +I have and shall hereafter direct. And that what mony or rent shail +remaine undisposed offe shall be imployed to buie coles for some pore +people, that shall most neide them in the said towne; the saide coles to +be delivered the last weike in Janewary, or in every first weike in +Febrewary: I say then, because I take that time to be the hardest and +most pinching times with pore people. And God reward those that shall doe +this with out partialitie and with honestie and a good contience. + +And if the saide maior and others of the saide towne of Stafford, shall +prove so necligent or dishonest as not to imploy the rent by me given as +intended and exprest in this my will, (which God forbid,) then I give the +saide rents and profits, of the saide farme or land, to the towne and +chiefe magestrats or governers of Ecles-hall, to be disposed by them in +such maner as I have ordered the disposall of it, by the towne of Stafford, +the said Farme or land being nere the towne of Ecles-hall. + +And I give to my son-in-law Doctor Hawkins, (whome I love as my owne son) +and to my dafter his wife, and my son Izaak to each of them a ring with +these words or motto;--love my memory, I.W. obiet = to the Lord B'p of +Winton a ring with this motto--a mite for a million: I.W. obiet = "And +to the freinds hearafter named I give to each of them a ring with this +motto--A friends farewell. I.W. obiet" = and my will is, the said rings +be delivered within fortie dayes of my deth. and that the price or valew +of all the saide rings shall be--l3s. 4d. a peice. + +I give to Doctor Hawkins Docto'r Donns Sermons; which I have hear'd +preacht, and read with much content, to my son Izaak I give Doc'r Sibbs +his _Soules Conflict_ and to my doughter his _Brewsed Reide_; desiring +them to reade them so, as to be well aquanted with them, and I also give +to her all my bookes at Winchester and Droxford, and what ever in those +two places are or I can call mine: except a trunk of linen, which I gave +to my son Izaak, but if he doe not live to make use of it, then I give +the same to my grand-dafter, Anne Hawkins: And I give my dafter Doc'r +Halls Works which be now at Farnham. + +To my son Izaak I give all my books, (not yet given) at Farnham Castell +and a deske of prints and pickters; also a cabinet nere my beds head, in +w'ch are som littell things that he will valew, tho of noe greate worth. + +And my will and desyre is, that he will be kind to his Ante Beacham and +his ant Rose Ken: by alowing the first about fiftie shilling a yeare in +or for bacon and cheise (not more), and paying 4li. a yeare toward the +bordin of her son's dyut to M'r. John Whitehead. for his ante Ken, I desyre +him to be kinde to her according to her necessitie and his owne abillitie. +and I comend one of her children to breide up (as I have saide I intend +to doe) if he shall be able to doe it as I know he will; for, they be +good folke. + +I give to M'r. John Darbishire the Sermons of M'r. Antony Faringdon, or +of do'r Sanderson, which my executor thinks fit to my servant, Thomas +Edghill I give five pownd in mony, and all my clothes linen and wollen +except one sute of clothes, (which I give to M'r. Holinihed, and forty +shiling) if the saide Thomas be my servant at my deth, if not my cloths +only. + +And I give my old friend M'r. Richard Marriot ten pownd in mony, to be +paid him within . 3 . months after my deth. and I desyre my son to shew +kindenes to him if he shall neide, and my son can spare it. + +And I doe hereby will and declare my son Izaak to be my sole executo'r of +this my last will and testament; and Do'r Hawkins, to see that he performs +it, which I doubt not but he will. + +I desyre my buriall may be nere the place of my deth; and free from any +ostentation or charg, but privately: this I make to be my last will, (to +which I only add the codicell for rings,) this 16. day of August, 1683. + +Witnes to this will. IZAAK WALTON. + + +The rings I give are as on the other side. + +To my brother Jon Ken. to my brother Beacham. +to my sister his wife. to my sister his wife, +to my brother Docr Ken. to the lady Anne How. +to my sister Pye. to M'rs. King Dor Philips wife. +to M'r. Francis Morley. to M'r. Valantine Harecourt. +to Sr George Vernon. to M'rs. Elyza Johnson. +to his wife. to M'rs. Mary Rogers. +to his 3 dafters to M'rs. Elyza Milward, +to M'rs. Nelson. to M'rs. Doro. Wallop. +to M'r. Rich. Walton. to M'r. Will. Milward of +to M'r. Palmer. Christ-Church, Oxford. +to M'r. Taylor. to M'r. John Darbeshire. +to M'r. Tho. Garrard. to M'r. Veudvill. +to the Lord Bp. of Sarum. to M'rs. Rock. +to M'r. Rede his Servant. to M'r. Peter White. +to my Coz. Dorothy Kenrick. to M'r. John Lloyde. +to my Coz. Lewin. to my Coz Greinsells +to M'r. Walter Higgs. ---- widow +to M'r. Cha Cotton. 16 M'rs. Dalbin must not +to M'r. Rich. Marryot. be forgotten. +---- +22 + + + + +Note that several lines are blotted } +out of this will for they are twice } +repeted: And, that this will is now } IZAAK WALTON +signed & sealed, this twenty and } +fourth day of October 1683 in the } +presence of us-- } + +Witnes, Abra. 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I. An Elegie upon Dr. Donne. +1635. II. Lines on a Portrait of Donne. +1638. III. Commendatory Verses prefixed to The Merchants Mappe of + Commerce. +1645. IV. Preface to Quarles' Shepherds Oracles. +1650. V. Couplet on Dr. Richard Sibbes. +1651. VI. Dedication of Reliquiae Wottonianae. + VII. On the Death of William Cartwright. +1652. VIII. Preface to Sir John Skeffington's Heroe of Lorenzo. + IX. Commendatory Verses to the Author of Scintillula Altaris. +1658. X. Dedication of the Life of Donne and Advertisement to the + Reader. +1660. XI. Daman and Dorus: An humble Eglog. +1661. XII. To my Reverend Friend the Author of The Synagogue. +1662. XIII. Epitaph on his Second Wife, Anne Ken. +1670. XIV. Letter to Edward Ward. +1672. XV. Dedication of the Third Edition of Reliquiae Wottonianae. +1673. XVI. Letter to Marriott. +1678. XVII. Preface &c. to Thealma & Clearchus. +1680. XVIII. Letter to John Aubrey. +1683. XIX. Izaak Walton's Last Will and Testament. + + + + +PREFACE. + +Few men who have written books have been able to win so large a share of +the personal affection of their readers as honest Izaak Walton has done, +and few books are laid down with so genuine a feeling of regret as the +"Complete Angler" certainly is, that they are no longer. "One of the +gentlest and tenderest spirits of the seventeenth century," we all know +his dear old face, with its cheerful, happy, serene look, and we should +all have liked to accompany him on one of those angling excursions from +Tottenham High Cross, and to have listened to the quaint, garrulous, +sportive talk, the outcome of a religion which was like his homely garb, +not too good for every-day wear. We see him, now diligent in his business, +now commemorating the virtues of that cluster of scholars and churchmen +with whose friendship he was favoured in youth, and teaching his young +brother-in-law, Thomas Ken, to walk in their saintly footsteps,--now +busy with his rod and line, or walking and talking with a friend, staying +now and then to quaff an honest glass at a wayside ale-house--leading a +simple, cheerful, blameless life + + "Thro' near a century of pleasant years."[1] + +We have said that the reader regrets that Walton should have left so +little behind him: his "Angler" and his Lives are all that is known to +most. But we are now enabled to present those who love his memory with +a collection of fugitive pieces, in verse and prose, extending in date +of composition over a period of fifty years,--beginning with the Elegy +on Donne, in 1633, and terminating only with his death in 1683. All these, +however unambitious, are more or less characteristic of the man, and +impregnated with the same spirit of genial piety that distinguishes the +two well-known books to which they form a supplement. + +Walton's devotion to literature must have begun at an early age; for in +a little poem, entitled _The Love of Amos and Laura_, published in 1619, +when he was only twenty-six, and attributed variously to Samuel Purchas, +author of "The Pilgrims," and to Samuel Page, we find the following +dedication to him:-- + + "TO MY APPROVED AND MUCH RESPECTED FRIEND, IZ. WA. + + "To thee, thou more then thrice beloved friend, + I too unworthy of so great a blisse: + These harsh-tun'd lines I here to thee commend, + Thou being cause it is now as it is: + For hadst thou held thy tongue, by silence might + These have beene buried in obliuious night. + + "If they were pleasing, I would call them thine, + And disauow my title to the verse: + But being bad, I needes must call them mine. + No ill thing can be cloathed in thy verse. + Accept them then, and where I have offended, + Rase thou it out, and let it be amended. + + "S.P." [2] + +What poems Walton wrote in his youth, we have now no means of knowing; it +has not been discovered that any have been printed, unless we adopt the +theory advocated by Mr. Singer,[3] and by a writer in the "Retrospective +Review,"[4] that the poem of _Thealma and Clearchus_, which he published +in the last year of his life, as a posthumous fragment of his relation +John Chalkhill, was really a juvenile work of his own. Some plausibility +is lent to this notion by the fact that Walton speaks of the author with +so much reticence and reserve in his preface to the volume, and also that +in introducing two of Chalkhill's songs into the "Complete Angler," he +does not bestow on them the customary words of commendation. This theory +has been rebutted by others, who assert that Walton was of too truthful +and guileless a nature to resort to such an artifice. We confess that we +are unable to see anything dishonest in the adoption, as a pseudonym, of +the name of a deceased friend, or anything more than Walton appears to +have done on another occasion when he published his two letters on "Love +and Truth." It is certain, however, that a family of Chalkhills existed, +with whom Walton was closely connected by his marriage with the sister of +Bishop Ken. But that an "acquaintant and friend of Edmund Spenser," +capable of writing such a poem as _Thealma and Clearchus_, should have +kept his talents so concealed, that in an age of commendatory verses no +slightest contemporary record of him exists--is, to say the least, +extraordinary. There are cogent arguments then on both sides of the +question, and there is very little positive proof on either: so we must +be content to leave the matter in some doubt and obscurity. + +The first production to which our author attached the well-known +signature of "Iz. Wa." was an Elegy on the Death of Dr. Donne, the Dean +of St. Paul's, prefixed to a collection of Donne's Poems. Walton was then +forty years of age. From this time forward we find him more or less +engaged, at not very long intervals, on literary labours, till the very +year of his death. + +The care which Walton spent on his productions seems to have been very +great. He wrote and re-wrote, corrected, amended, rescinded, and added. +This very poem--the Elegy on Donne--he completely remodelled in his old +age, when he inserted it in the collection of his Lives. But we have +thought it well to give the original version here as a literary curiosity, +and the first work of his that has come down to us. The original Lives +themselves--especially those of Wotton and Donne--were mere sketches of +what they are in their present enlarged form. + +Walton had the good fortune to be thrown very early in life into the +society and intimacy of men who were his superiors in rank and education. +But he had enough of culture, joined to his inherent reverence of mind, +to appreciate and understand all that they had and he wanted. + +The preface to Sir John Skeffington's _Heroe of Lorenzo_ had for two +centuries lain forgotten, and escaped the notice of Walton's biographers, +till in 1852 it was discovered by Dr. Bliss of Oxford, and communicated by +him to the late William Pickering. + +The original Spanish work was first published in 1630. The author's real +name was not Lorenzo, but Balthazar Gracian, a Jesuit of Aragon, who +flourished during the first half of the seventeenth century, when the +cultivated style took possession of Spanish prose, and rose to its +greatest consideration.[5] It is a collection of short, wise apothegms +and maxims for the conduct of life, sometimes illustrated by stories of +valour, or prowess, or magnanimity, of the old Castilian heroes who figure +in "Count Lucanor." The book, though now no longer read, must have been +very popular at one time, for there exist two or three later English +versions of it, without, however, the nervous concentration of style and +idiomatic diction that characterize the translation sent forth to the +world under Walton's auspices. + +The two Letters published in 1680 under the title of Love and Truth,[6] +were written respectively in the years 1668 and 1679. The evidence of +their authorship is twofold, and we think quite conclusive. In one of the +very few copies known to exist, and now in the library of Emanuel College, +Cambridge, its original possessor, Archbishop Sancroft, has written:--"Is. +Walton's 2 letters conc. ye Distemp's of ye Times, 1680," and Dr. Zouch +appended to his reprint of the tract[7] a number of parallel passages +from other acknowledged writings of Walton, of themselves almost +sufficient to fix the question on internal evidence alone. + +In the British Museum copy of this tract is the following note on one of +the fly-leaves in the autograph of the late William Pickering:-- + + "The present is the only copy I have met with after twenty years' + search, excepting the one in Emanuel College, Cambridge. W. Pickering." + +The copy described above [_i.e._, the Emanuel College copy] appears to +be the same edition as the present [that now in the British Museum], but +has the following variation. After the title-page is printed + + The Author to the Stationer + +"Mr. Brome," &c., and the Epistle ends with "Your friend," without the +N.N. which is found in this copy. But what is more remarkable, the printed +word Author is run through, and corrected with a pen, and over it written +_Publisher_, which is evidently in the handwriting of Walton. So Mr. +Pickering further certifies. + +The following allusion towards the bottom of p. 37 confirms the idea of +Walton's authorship. Speaking of Hugh Peters and John Lilbourn, the writer +says:--"Their turbulent lives and uncomfortable deaths are not I hope yet +worn out of the memory of many. He that compares them with the holy life +and happy death of Mr. George Herbert, as it is plainly and _I hope truly_ +writ by Mr. Isaac Walton, may in it find a perfect pattern for an humble +and devout Christian to imitate," &c. + +The following are the chief parallel passages in this pamphlet and in +Walton's other writings, as indicated by Zouch:-- + + + _Second Letter_, _p. 19._ _Life of George Herbert._ + +I wish as heartily as you Mr. George Herbert having +do that all such Clergy-mens changed his sword and +Wives as have silk Cloaths silk clothes into a canonical +be-daubed with Lace, and coat, thus warned Mrs. Herbert +their heads hanged about against this egregious folly +with painted Ribands, were of _striving for precedency_:-- +enjoyned Penance for their "You are now a minister's +pride: And their Husbands wife, and must now so far forget +punisht for being so tame, or your father's house, as not +so lovingly-simple, as to suffer to claim a precedence of any +them; for, by such Cloaths, of your parishioners," &c. +they proclaim their own Ambition, +and their Husbands folly. + +And I say the like, concerning +their _striving for Precedency_. + + + _P. 20._ _Life of George Herbert._ + +And, I confess also, what One cure for the wickedness +you say of a Clergy-mans of the times would be, +bidding _to fast_ on the Eves of for the clergy themselves +Holy-days, in Lent, and the to keep the Ember-weeks +_Ember Weeks_: And I wish strictly, &c. +those biddings were forborn, +or better practised by themselves. + + + _P. 20._ _Life of George Herbert._ + +And, I wish as heartily as Those ministers that huddled +you can, that they would not up the church prayers +only read, but pray, the without a visible reverence +Common Prayer; and not and affection: namely, such +huddle it up so fast (as too as semed to say the Lord's +many do) by getting into a Prayer or collect in a breath. +middle of a second Collect, +before a devout Hearer can +say Amen to the first. + + _Preface to Sanderson's XXI + _P. 20._ Sermons, 1655._ + +And now, having unbowelled But since I had thus adventured +my very soul thus to unbowel myself, +freely to you, &c. and to lay open the very inmost + thoughts of my heart. + + + _P.21._ _Life of Sanderton._ + +A Corrosive, or (as _Solomon_ Riches so gotten, and added +says of ill-gotten riches) to his great estate, would +_like gravel in his teeth_. prove _like gravel in his teeth_. + + + _P. 21._ _Life of Sir H. Wotton._ + +Those _Bishops and Martyrs_ It was the advice of Sir +that assisted in this Reformation, Henry Wotton, "Take heed +did not (as Sir _Henry Wotton_ of thinking the farther you go +said wisely) think _the farther_ from the Church of Rome, +they went from the Church of Rome, the nearer you are to God." +the nearer they got to heaven. + + + _P. 23._ _Life of Richard Hooker._ + +To make the Women, the Here the very women and +Shop-keepers, and the middle- shopkeepers were able to judge +witted People ... less of predestination, and determine +busie, and more humble and what laws were fit to +lowly in their own eyes, and be obeyed or abolished. +to think that they are neither +called, nor are fit to meddle +with, and judge of the most +hidden and mysterious points +in _Divinity_, and Government +of the _Church_ and _State_. + + + _P. 36._ _Life of Sanderson._ + +I desire you to look back Some years before the unhappy +with me to the beginning of Long Parliament, this +the late Long Parliament nation being then happy and +1640, at which time we in peace. +were the quietest and happiest +people in the Christian World. + +To the present Editor the collection and annotation of these Remains has +been a most welcome labour of love. Some of his oldest and most cherished +memories connect themselves with the author of the "Complete Angler." That +book was one of the first that he ever read with real and genuine delight; +and even before reading days commenced, in the earliest dawn of memory, +the place where Walton had cut his familiar signature of "Iz. Wa." on +Chaucer's tomb in Westminster Abbey, was pointed out to him often by a +kindred spirit now here no more. The name of Walton will also be found +enshrined in the earliest prose production[8] to which the Editor +prefixed his own name. + R.H.S. + + +FOOTNOTES + +[1] "Happy old man, whose worth all mankind knows + Except himself, who charitably shows + The ready road to Virtue, and to Praise, + The road to many long, and happy days; + The noble arts of generous piety, + And how to compass true felicity. + ----he knows no anxious cares, + Thro' near a Century of pleasant years; + Easy he lives and cheerful shall he die, + Well spoken of by late posterity." + + June 5, 1683. + _(Flatman's Commendatory Verses prefixed to "Thealma and Clearchus;" + Poems and Songs by Thomas Flatman, Third Edition.)_ + +[2] _The Love of Amos and Laura. Written by S.P. London. Printed for + Richard Hawkins, dwelling in Chancery-Lane, neere Serieants Inne, + 1619._ Printed at the end of a volume entitled, _Alcilia, Philoparthens + louing Folly, &c._, which, from its being signed at the end with the + initials "J.C.," has been attributed to Walton's friend, John + Chalkhill, whose posthumous poem, _Thealma and Clearchus_, he published + in the last year of his life. The lines to Walton do not appear in the + earlier quarto edition of the book issued by the same publisher in 1613, + or in the later quarto of 1628. + +[3] _Thealma and Clearchus; a Pastoral Romance, by John Chalkhill. + First Published by Isaac Walton, 1683. A New Edition. Revised and + Corrected (by S.W. Singer). Chiswick: 1820._ + +[4] Vol. iv. (1821), pp. 230-249. + +[5] Ticknor's _History of Spanish Literature_ (Lond. 1849), vol. iii. + p. 177. + +[6] _Love and Truth: / in / Two modest and peaceable / Letters / + concerning / The distempers of the present Times. / Written / + From a quiet and Conformable Citizen of / LONDON, to two busie + and Factious/ Shop-keepers in Coventry./_ + + 1 Pet. 4. 15. + But let none of you suffer as a busiebody in other mens / + matters. / + + LONDON, / Printed by _M.C._ for _Henry Brome_ at the Gun / + in St. _Pauls_ Church-yard. 1680. + + COLLATION: 4to. pp. iv. (with Title) 40 (Sig. A 1 and 2; + B to E 4). + +[7] York, 1795, pp. x. 70. + +[8] _The School of Pantagruel_, Sunbury, 1862, p. 9. + + + * * * * * + + + + + AN ELEGIE UPON DR. DONNE. + + 1633. + + + + +[_Juvenilia: or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes, written by I. Donne. +London, Printed by E.P. for Henry Seyle, and are to be sold at the signe +of the Tygers head, in Saint Pauls Church-yard, Anno Dom_. 1633 +(pp. 382-384)._ + +_Poems, by J.D. with Elegies on the Author's Death. London. Printed by +M.F. for JOHN MARRIOT, and are to be sold at his Shop in St. Dunstans +Church-yard in Fleet-street, 1635._ + +The text is printed from the revised version of 1635, and the original +readings of 1633 are given at the foot of the page.] + + + +_An Elegie upon_ DR. DONNE. + + Our _Donne_ is dead; England should mourne, may say + We had a man where language chose to stay + And shew her gracefull power.[1] I would not praise + That and his vast wit (which in these vaine dayes + Make many proud) but, as they serv'd to unlock + That Cabinet, his minde: where such a stock + Of knowledge was repos'd, as all lament + (Or should) this generall cause of discontent. + And I rejoyce I am not so severe, + But (as I write a line) to weepe a teare + For his decease; Such sad extremities + May make such men as I write Elegies. + And wonder not; for, when a generall losse + Falls on a nation, and they slight the crosse, + God hath rais'd Prophets to awaken them + From stupifaction; witnesse my milde pen, + Not us'd to upbraid the world, though now it must + Freely and boldly, for, the cause is just. + Dull age, Oh I would spare thee, but th'art worse, + Thou art not onely dull, but hast a curse + Of black ingratitude; if not, couldst thou + Part with _miraculous Donne_, and make no vow + For thee, and thine, successively to pay + A sad remembrance to his dying day? + Did his youth scatter _Poetry_, wherein + Was all Philosophy? was every sinne, + Character'd in his _Satyrs_? Made so foule + That some have fear'd their shapes, and kept their soule + Safer by reading verse? Did he give _dayes_ + Past marble monuments, to those, whose praise + He would perpetuate? Did he (I feare + The dull will doubt:) these at his twentieth year? + But, more matur'd; Did his full soule conceive, + And in harmonious-holy-numbers weave + A [2]_Crown of sacred sonnets_, fit to adorne + A dying Martyrs brow: or, to be worne + On that blest head of _Mary Magdalen_, + After she wip'd Christs feet, but not till then? + Did hee (fit for such penitents as shee + And he to use) leave us a _Litany_, + Which all devout men love, and sure, it shall, + As times grow better, grow more classicall? + Did he write _Hymnes_, for piety, for wit,[3] + Equall to those, great grave _Prudentius_ writ? + Spake he all _Languages_? knew he all Lawes? + The grounds and use of _Physick_; but because + 'Twas mercenary, wav'd it? Went to see + That blessed place of _Christs nativity_? + Did he returne and preach him? preach him so + As since S. _Paul_ none did, none could? Those know, + (Such as were blest to heare him) this is truth.[4] + Did he confirm thy aged?[5] convert thy youth? + Did he these wonders? And is this deare losse + Mourn'd by so few? (few for so great a crosse.) + But sure the silent are ambitious all + To be Close Mourners at his Funerall; + If not; In common pitty they forbare + By repetitions to renew our care; + Or, knowing, griefe conceiv'd, conceal'd, consumes + Man irreparably, (as poyson'd fumes + Doe waste the braine) make silence a safe way, + To'inlarge the Soule from these walls, mud and clay, + (Materials of this body) to remaine + With _Donne_ in heaven, where no promiscuous pain + Lessens the joy we have, for, with _him_, all + Are satisfy'd with _joyes essentiall_. + Dwell on this joy my thoughts; oh, doe not call[6] + Griefe back, by thinking of his Funerall; + Forget hee lov'd mee; Waste not my sad yeares; + (Which hast to _Davids_ seventy,) fill'd with feares + And sorrow for his death; Forget his parts, + Which finde a living grave in good mens hearts; + And, (for, my first is dayly payd for sinne) + Forget to pay my second sigh for him: + Forget his powerfull preaching; and forget + I am his _Convert_. Oh my frailty! let + My flesh be no more heard, it will obtrude + This lethargy: so should my gratitude, + My flowes[7] of gratitude should so be broke; + Which can no more be, than _Donnes_ vertues spoke + By any but himselfe; for which cause, I + Write no _Encomium_, but this _Elegie_,[8] + Which, as a free-will-offring, I here give + Fame, and the world, and parting with it grieve + I want abilities, fit to set forth + A monument, great, as Donnes matchlesse worth. + IZ. WA. + + +FOOTNOTES + +[1] In the edition of 1633, the poem opens thus:-- + Is _Donne_, great _Donne_ deceas'd? then England say + Thou'hast lost a man where language chose to stay + And shew it's gracefull power, &c. + +[2] _La Corona_. + +[3] for piety and wit,--1633. + +[4] As none but hee did, or could do? They know + (Such as were blest to heare him know) 'tis truth.--1633. + +[5] _age_ in the edition of 1633. + +[6] My thoughts, Dwell on this _Joy_, and do not call--1633. + +[7] _vowes_ in the edition of 1633. + +[8] Write no _Encomium_, but an _Elegie_. + Here the poem closed in the edition of 1633. + + + * * * * * + + + + + LINES ON A PORTRAIT OF DONNE IN + HIS EIGHTEENTH YEAR. + + 1635. + + + + +[Engraved under William Marshall's Portrait of Donne, "Anno Domini. 1591. +Aetatis suae 18," prefixed to the second edition of Donne's Poems, 1635.] + + + +_On a Portrait of_ DONNE _taken in his eighteenth year._ + + This was for youth, Strength, Mirth, and wit that Time + Most count their golden Age; but t'was not thine. + Thine was thy later yeares, so much refind + From youths Drosse, Mirth & wit; as thy pure mind + Thought (like the Angels) nothing but the Praise + Of thy Creator, in those last, best Dayes. + Witnes this Booke, (thy Embleme) which begins + With Love; but endes, with Sighes, & Teares for sin's. + IZ: WA: + + + * * * * * + + + + + COMMENDATORY VERSES PREFIXED TO + THE MERCHANTS MAPPE OF + COMMERCE. + + 1638. + + + + +[The Merchants Mappe of Commerce: wherein the Universall Manner and Matter +of Trade, is compendiously handled. By Lewes Roberts, Merchant. At London, +Printed by R.O. for Ralph Mabb MDCXXXVIII. _fol._ + +--The Second Edition, Corrected and much Enlarged. London, MDCLXXI. _fol._] + + + +_In praise of my friend the Author, and his Booke._ + + +TO THE READER. + + If thou would'st be a _States-man_, and survay + Kingdomes for information; heres a way + Made plaine, and easie: fitter far for thee + Then great _Ortelius_ his _Geographie_. + + If thou would'st be a _Gentleman_, in more + Then title onely; this MAP yeelds thee store + Of Observations, fit for Ornament, + Or use, or to give curious eares content. + + If thou would'st be a _Merchant_, buy this Booke: + For 'tis a prize worth gold; and doe not looke + Daily for such disbursements; no, 'tis rare, + And should be cast up with thy richest ware. + + READER, if thou be any, or all three; + (For these may meet and make a harmonie) + Then prayse this Author for his usefull paines, + Whose aime is publike good, not private gaines. + IZ. WA. + + + * * * * * + + + + + PREFACE TO QUARLES'S SHEPHERD + ORACLES. + + 1645. + + + + +[The Shepheards Oracles: Delivered in Certain Eglogues. By Fra: Quarles. +London, Printed by M.F. for John Marriot and Richard Marriot, and are to +be sold at their shop in S. Dunstans Church-yard Fleetstreet, under the +Dyall. 1646.] + + + +_To the Reader._ + +READER, +Though the Authour had some years before his lamented death, compos'd, +review'd, and corrected these Eglogues; yet, he left no Epistle to the +Reader, but onely a Title, and a blanke leafe for that purpose. + +Whether he meant some Allegoricall exposition of the Shepheards names, or +their Eglogues, is doubtfull: but 'tis certain, that as they are, they +appear a perfect pattern of the Authour; whose person, and minde, were +both lovely, and his conversation such as distill'd pleasure, knowledge, +and vertue, into his friends and acquaintance. + +'Tis confest, these Eglogues are not so wholly divine as many of his +publisht Meditations, which speak _his affections to be set upon things +that are above_, and yet even such men have their intermitted howres, and +(as their company gives occasion) commixtures of heavenly and earthly +thoughts. + +You are therefore requested to fancy him cast by fortune into the company +of some yet unknown Shepheards: and you have a liberty to beleeve 'twas +by this following accident. + +"He in a Sommers morning (about that howre when the great eye of Heaven +first opens it selfe to give light to us mortals) walking a gentle pace +towards a Brook (whose Spring-head was not far distant from his peacefull +habitation) fitted with Angle, Lines, and Flyes: Flyes proper for that +season (being the fruitfull Month of _May_;) intending all diligence to +beguile the timorous Trout, (with which that watry element abounded) +observ'd a more then common concourse of Shepheards, all bending their +unwearied steps towards a pleasant Meadow within his present prospect, +and had his eyes made more happy to behold the two fair Shepheardesses +_Amaryllis_ and _Aminta_ strewing the foot-paths with Lillies, and +Ladysmocks, so newly gathered by their fair hands, that they yet smelt +more sweet then the morning, and immediately met (attended with _Clora +Clorinda_, and many other Wood-nymphs) the fair and vertuous _Parthenia_: +who after a courteous salutation and inquiry of his intended Journey, +told him the neighbour-Shepheards of that part of Arcadia had dedicated +that day to be kept holy to the honour of their great God _Pan_; and, +that they had designed her Mistresse of a Love-feast, which was to be +kept that present day, in an Arbour built that morning, for that purpose; +she told him also, that _Orpheus_ would bee there, and bring his Harp, +_Pan_ his Pipe, and _Titerus_ his Oaten-reed, to make musick at this +feast; shee therefore perswaded him, not to lose, but change that dayes +pleasure; before he could return an answer they were unawares entred into +a living mooving Lane, made of Shepheard and Pilgrimes; who had that +morning measured many miles to be eye-witnesses of that days pleasure; +this Lane led them into a large Arbour, whose wals were made of the +yeelding Willow, and smooth Beech boughs: and covered over with Sycamore +leaves, and Honysuccles." + +I might now tell in what manner (after her first entrance into this Arbour) +_Philoclea_ (_Philoclea_ the fair _Arcadian_ Shepheardesse) crown'd her +Temples with a Garland, with what flowers, and by whom 'twas made; I might +tell what guests (besides _Astrea_ and _Adonis_) were at this feast; and +who (beside _Mercury_) waited at the Table, this I might tell: but may not, +cannot expresse what musick the Gods and Wood-nymphs made within; and the +Linits, Larks, and Nightingales about this Arbour, during this holy day: +which began in harmlesse mirth, and (for _Bacchus_ and his gang were +absent) ended in love and peace, which _Pan_ (for he onely can doe it) +continue in _Arcadia, and restore to the disturbed Island of_ Britannia, +_and grant that each honest Shepheard may again sit under his own Vine and +Fig-tree, and feed his own flock, and with love enjoy the fruits of peace, +and be more thankfull._ + +Reader, at this time and place, the Authour contracted a friendship with +certain single-hearted Shepheards: with whom (as he return'd from his +River-recreations) he often rested himselfe, and whilest in the calm +evening their flocks fed about them, heard that discourse, which (with the +Shepheards names) is presented in these Eglogues. + +23 Novem. 1645. + + + * * * * * + + + + + COUPLET ON DR. RICHARD SIBBES. + + 1650. + + + + +[Written by Izaak Walton in his copy of Dr. Richard Sibbes's work, _The +Returning Backslider_, 4'10., 1650, preserved in the Cathedral Library, +Salisbury. See Sir Harris Nicolas' Memoir of Walton, clv.] + + + + Of this blest man let this just praise be given, + Heaven was in him, before he was in heaven. + IZAAK WALTON. + + + * * * * * + + + + + DEDICATION OF RELIQUIAE + WOTTONIANAE. + + 1651. + + + + +[Reliquiae Wottonianae, or, a Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems; with +Characters of Sundry Personages: and other Incomparable Pieces of Language +and Art. By The curious Pensil of the Ever Memorable Sr. Henry Wotton, +Kt., Late, Provost of Eton Colledg. London, Printed by Thomas Maxey, for +R. Marriot, G. Bedel, and T. Garthwait. 1651.] + + + +_To the Right Honourable The Lady Mary Wotton Baronness, and to her Three +Noble Daughters._ + + { KATHERIN STANHOP. + THE LADY { MARGARET TUFTON. + { ANN HALES. + +Since Bookes seeme by custome to Challenge a dedication, Justice would +not allow, that what either was, or concern'd Sir Henry Wotton, should be +appropriated to any other Persons; Not only for that nearnesse of Aliance +and Blood (by which you may chalenge a civil right to what was his;) but, +by a title of that intirenesse of Affection, which was in you to each +other, when Sir Henry Wotton had a being upon Earth. + +And since yours was a Friendship made up of generous Principles, as I +cannot doubt but these indeavours to preserve his Memory wil be acceptable +to all that lov'd him; so especially to you: from whom I have had such +incouragements as hath imboldned me to this Dedication. Which you are +most humbly intreated may be accepted from + + Your very reall servant, + I. W. + + + * * * * * + + + + + ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM + CARTWRIGHT. + + 1651. + + + + +[Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, with other Poems, by Mr. William Cartwright, +late Student of Christ-Church in Oxford, and Proctor of the University. +London, Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his Shop, at +the sign of the Prince's Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1651.] + + + +_On the Death of my dear Friend Mr. William Cartwright, relating to the +foregoing Elegies._ + + + I cannot keep my purpose, but must give + Sorrow and Verse their way; nor will I grieve + Longer in silence; no, that poor, poor part + Of natures legacy, Verse void of Art, + And undissembled teares, CARTWRIGHT shall have + Fixt on his Hearse; and wept into his grave. + Muses I need you not; for, Grief and I + Can in your absence weave an Elegy: + Which we will do; and often inter-weave + Sad Looks, and Sighs; the ground-work must receive + Such Characters, or be adjudg'd unfit + For my Friends shroud; others have shew'd their Wit, + Learning, and Language fitly; for these be + Debts due to his great Merits: but for me, + My aymes are like my self, humble and low, + Too mean to speak his praise, too mean to show + The World what it hath lost in losing thee, + Whose Words and Deeds were perfect Harmony. + But now 'tis lost; lost in the silent Grave, + Lost to us Mortals, lost, 'till we shall have + Admission to that Kingdom, where He sings + Harmonious Anthems to the King of Kings. + Sing on blest Soul! be as thou wast below, + A more than common instrument to show + Thy Makers praise; sing on, whilst I lament + Thy loss, and court a holy discontent, + With such pure thoughts as thine, to dwell with me, + Then I may hope to live, and dye like thee, + To live belov'd, dye mourn'd, thus in my grave; + Blessings that Kings have wish'd, but cannot have. + IZ. WA. + + + * * * * * + + + + + PREFACE TO SIR JOHN SKEFFINGTON'S + HEROE OF LORENZO. + + 1652. + + + + +[The Heroe, of Lorenzo, or, The way to Eminencie and Perfection. A piece +of serious Spanish wit Originally in that language written, and in English. +By Sir John Skeffington, Kt. and Barronet. London, printed for John Martin +and James Allestrye at the Bell in St Pauls Church-yard. 1652.] + + + +_Let this be told the Reader_, + +That Sir _John Skeffington_ (one of his late Majesties servants, and a +stranger to no language of _Christendom_) did about 40 years now past, +bring this Hero out of Spain into England. + +There they two kept company together 'till about 12 months now past: and +then, in a retyrement of that learned knights (by reason of a sequestration +for his masters cause) a friend coming to visit him, they fell accidentally +into a discourse of the _wit_ and _galantry_ of the _Spanish Nation_. + +That discourse occasioned an example or two, to be brought out of this +_Hero_: and, those examples (with Sir _John's_ choice language and +illustration) were so relisht by his friend (a stranger to the _Spanish +tongue_) that he became restles 'till he got a promise from Sir _John_ +to translate the whole, which he did in a few weeks; and so long as that +imployment lasted it proved an excellent diversion from his many sad +thoughts; But he hath now chang'd that Condition, to be possest of that +place into which sadnesse is not capable of entrance. + +And his absence from this world hath occasion'd mee (who was one of those +few that he gave leave to know him, for he was a retyr'd man) to tell the +Reader that I heard him say, he had not made the _English_ so short, or +few words, as the originall; because in that, the Author had exprest +himself so enigmatically, that though he indevour'd to translate it +plainly; yet, he thought it was not made comprehensible enough for common +Readers, therefore he declar'd to me, that he intended to make it so by +a coment on the margent; which he had begun, but (be it spoke with sorrow) +he and those thoughts are now buried in the silent Grave,[1] and my self, +with those very many that lov'd him, left to lament that losse. + I.W. + +FOOTNOTES + +[1] Compare the poem on the death of Cartwright, _supra_:-- + + "But now 'tis lost; lost in the silent grave," &c. + + + * * * * * + + + + + COMMENDATORY VERSE TO THE + AUTHOR OF SCINTILLULA + ALTARIS. + + 1652. + + + + +[Scintillula Altaris or, a Pious Reflection on Primitive Devotion: as to +the Feasts and Fasts of the Christian Church, Orthodoxally Revived. By +Edward Sparke, B.D. London; Printed by T. Maxey for Richard Marriot, and +are to be sold at his Shop in St. Dunstan's Church-yard in Fleetstreet, +1652. + +This book reached a Seventh Edition during Walton's lifetime; but his +Commendatory Verses are only to be found in the first.] + + + +_To the Author upon the sight of the first sheet of his Book._ + + My worthy friend, I am much pleas'd to know, + You have begun to pay the debt you owe + By promise, to so many pious friends, + In printing your choice Poems; it commends + Both them, and you, that they have been desir'd + By persons of such Judgment; and admir'd + They must be most, by those that best shal know + What praise to holy Poetry we owe. + So shall your Disquisitions too; for, there + Choice learning, and blest piety, appear. + All usefull to poor Christians: where they may + Learne Primitive Devotion. Each Saints day + Stands as a Land-mark in an erring age + to guide fraile mortals in their pilgrimage + To the Coelestiall _Can'an_; and each Fast, + Is both the souls direction, and repast: + All so exprest, that I am glad to know + You have begun to pay the debt you owe. + IZ. WA. + + + * * * * * + + + + + DEDICATION OF THE LIFE OF DONNE + AND ADVERTISEMENT TO + THE READER. + + 1658. + + + + +[The Life of John Donne, Dr. in Divinity, and Late Dean of Saint Pauls +Church London. The second impression corrected and enlarged. Ecclus.48.14. +_He did wonders in his life, and at his death his works were marvelous_. +London, Printed by J.G. for R. Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop +under S. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street. 1658.] + + + +_To My Noble & honoured Friend Sir Robert Holt of Afton, in the County of +Warwick, Baronet._ + +Sir, + +When this relation of the life of Doctor Donne was first made publick, it +had besides the approbation of our late learned & eloquent King, a +conjunction with the Authors most excellent Sermons to support it; and +thus it lay some time fortified against prejudice; and those passions that +are by busie and malicious men too freely vented against the dead. + +And yet, now, after almost twenty yeares, when though the memory of Dr. +Donne himself, must not, cannot die, so long as men speak English; yet +when I thought Time had made this relation of him so like my self, as to +become useless to the world, and content to be forgotten; I find that a +retreat into a defired privacy, will not be afforded; for the Printers +will again expose it and me to publick exceptions; and without those +supports, which we first had and needed, and in an Age too, in which +Truth & Innocence have not beene able to defend themselves from worse then +severe censures. + +This I foresaw, and Nature teaching me selfe-preservation, and my long +experience of your abilities assuring me that in you it may in found:[1] +to you, Sir, do I make mine addreffes for an umbrage and protection: and +I make it with so much humble boldnesse, as to say 'twere degenerous in +you not to afford it. + +For, Sir, + +Dr. Donne was so much a part of yourself, as to be incorporated into your +Family, by so noble a friendship, that I may say there was a marriage of +fouls betwixt him and your[2] reverend Grandfather, who in his life was an +Angel of our once glorious Church, and now no common Star in heaven. + +And Dr. Donne's love died not with him, but was doubled upon his Heire, +your beloved Uncle the Bishop of [3] Chichester, that lives in this +froward generation, to be an ornament to his Calling. And this affection +to him was by Dr. D. so testified in his life, that he then trusted him +with the very secrets of his soul; & at his death, with what was dearest +to him, even his fame, estate, & children. + +And you have yet a further title to what was Dr. Donne's, by that dear +affection & friendship that was betwixt him and your parents, by which +he entailed a love upon yourself, even in your infancy, which was +encreased by the early testimonies of your growing merits, and by them +continued, till D. _Donne_ put on immortality; and so this mortall was +turned into a love that cannot die. + +And Sir, 'twas pity he was lost to you in your minority, before you had +attained a judgement to put a true value upon the living beauties and +elegancies of his conversation; and pitty too, that so much of them as +were capable of such an expression, were not drawn by the pensil of a +_Tytian_ or a _Tentoret_, by a pen equall and more lasting then their art; +for his life ought to be the example of more then that age in which he +died. And yet this copy, though very much, indeed too much short of the +Originall, will present you with some features not unlike your dead friend, +and with fewer blemishes and more ornaments than when 'twas first made +publique: which creates a contentment to my selfe, because it is the +more worthy of him, and because I may with more civility intitle you to +it. + +And in this designe of doing so, I have not a thought of what is pretended +in most Dedications, _a Commutation for Courtesies_: no indeed Sir, I put +no such value upon this trifle; for your owning it will rather increase my +Obligations. But my desire is, that into whose hands soever this shall +fall, it may to them be a testimony of my gratitude to your self and +Family, who descended to such a degree of humility as to admit me into +their friendship in the dayes of my youth; and notwithstanding my many +infirmities, have continued me in it till I am become gray-headed; and as +Time has added to my yeares, have still increased and multiplied their +favours. + +This, Sir, is the intent of this Dedication: and having made the +declaration of it thus publick, I shall conclude it with commending them +and you to Gods deare love. + +I remain, Sir, what your many merits have made me to be, + The humblest of your Servants, + ISAAC WALTON. + + + +_To the Reader._ + +My desire is to inform and assure you, that shall become my Reader, that +in that part of this following discourse, which is onely narration, I +either speak my own knowledge, or from the testimony of such as dare do +any thing, rather than speak an untruth. And for that part of it which is +my own observation or opinion, if I had a power I would not use it to +force any mans assent, but leave him a liberty to disbelieve what his own +reason inclines him to. + +Next, I am to inform you, that whereas Dr. Donne's life was formerly +printed with his Sermons, and then had the same Preface or Introduction +to it; I have not omitted it now, because I have no such confidence in +what I have done, as to appear without an apology for my undertaking it. + +I have said all when I have wished happinesse to my Reader. + I.W. + + +FOOTNOTES + +[1] _Sic_: probably a misprint for "_be_ found?"--ED. + +[2] _John King, B. of Lond._ + +[3] _Hen. King, now B.C._ + + + * * * * * + + + + + DAMAN AND DORUS. + AN HUMBLE EGLOG. + + 29th MAY 1660. + + + + +[Songs and other Poems. By Alex. Brome, Gent. London, Printed for Henry +Brome, at the Gun in Ivy-Lane, 1661. + +The Second Edition corrected and enlarged, 1664. + +The Third Edition enlarged. London, Printed for Henry Brome, at the Star +in Little Brittain, 1668.] + + + +_To my ingenious Friend_ Mr. BROME, _on his various and excellent Poems: +An humble Eglog. Written the 29 of May, 1660._ + + +DAMAN _and_ DORUS. + + DAMAN. + + _Hail happy day!_ Dorus _sit down: + Now let no sigh, nor let a frown + Lodge near thy heart, or on thy brow. + The_ King! _the_ King'_s return'd! and now + Let's banish all sad thoughts and sing_ + We have our Laws, and have our King. + + DORUS. + +_'Tis true, and I would sing, but oh! + These wars have sunk my heart so low + 'Twill not be rais'd._ + + DAMAN. + _What not this day? + Why 'tis the_ twenty ninth of May: + _Let_ Rebels _spirits sink; let those + That like the_ Goths _and_ Vandals _rose + To ruine families, and bring + Contempt upon our_ Church, _our_ King, + _And all that's dear to us, be sad; + But be not thou, let us be glad._ + And, _Dorus_, to invite thee, look, + Here's a Collection in this Book, + Of all those chearful Songs, that we + Have sung so oft and merilie[1] + + As we have march'd to fight the cause + Of _Gods Anointed_, and our _Laws_ + Such Songs as make not the least ods + Betwixt us _mortals_ and the _Gods_: + Such Songs as _Virgins_ need not fear + To sing, or a grave _Matron_ hear. + Here's _love_ drest _neat_, and _chast_, and _gay_ + As _gardens_ in the month of _May_; + Here's harmony, and _Wit_, and _Art_, + To raise thy _thoughts_, and chear thy _heart_. + + DORUS. + + _Written by whom?_ + + DAMAN. + + A friend of mine, + And one that's worthy to be thine: + A Civil _Swain_, that knows his times + For business, and that done makes Rhymes; + But not till then: my Friend's a man + Lov'd by the Muses; dear to _Pan_: + He blest him with a chearful heart: + And they with this sharp wit and Art, + Which he so tempers, as no _Swain_, + That's loyal, does or mould complain. + + DORUS. + + I wou'd fain see him: + + DAMAN. + + _Go with me_ + Dorus, _to yonder_ broad beech-tree, + _There we shall meet him and_ Phillis, + Perrigot, _and_ Amaryllis, + Tityrus, _and his dear_ Clora, + Tom _and_ Will, _and their_ Pastora: + _There wee'l dance, shake hands and sing_, + We have our Laws, + _God bless the King_. + IZ. WALTON. + + +FOOTNOTES + +[1] Have sung with mirth and merry-gle:--1661. + + + * * * * * + + + + + TO MY REVEREND FRIEND THE AUTHOR + OF THE SYNAGOGUE. + + 1661. + + + + +[The Synagogue, or The Shadow of the Temple. Sacred Poems and Private +Ejaculations. In imitation of Mr. George Herbert. The fourth Edition +corrected and enlarged. London, Printed for Philemon Stephens, at the +guilded Lyon in St. Pauls Churchyard, 1661. p. 67.] + + + +_To my Reverend Friend the Author of the Synagogue._ + +Sir, + + I lov'd you for your Synagogue, before + I knew your person; but now love you more; + Because I find + It is so true a picture of your mind: + Which tunes your sacred lyre + To that eternal quire; + Where holy _Herbert_ fits + (O shame to prophane wits) + And sings his and your Anthems, to the praise + Of Him that is the first and last of daies. + + These holy Hymns had an Ethereal birth: + For they can raise sad souls above the earth + And fix them there + Free from the worlds anxieties and fear. + _Herbert_ and you have pow'r + To do this: ev'ry hour + I read you kills a sin, + Or lets a vertue in + To fight against it; and the Holy Ghost + Supports my frailties, lest the day be lost. + + This holy war, taught by your happy pen, + The Prince of Peace approves. When we poor men + Neglect our arms, + W'are circumvested with a world of harms. + But I will watch, and ward, + And stand upon my guard, + And still consult with you, + And _Herbert_, and renew + My vows; and say, Well fare his, and your heart, + The fountains of such sacred wit and art. + IZ. WA. + + + * * * * * + + + + + EPITAPH ON HIS SECOND WIFE, + ANNE KEN. + + 1662. + + + + +[In Worcester Cathedral. The event is thus recorded by Walton in his +Family Prayer-Book: "Anne Walton dyed the 17th of April, about one o'clock +in that night, and was buried in the Virgin Mary's Chapel, in the +cathedral in Worcester, the 20th day."] + + + + + Ex Terris + M.S. + Here lyeth buried so much as + could dye of ANNE, the Wife of + Isaak Walton; + who was + a Woman of Remarkable Prudence, + and of the Primitive Piety; her great + and general knowledge being adorned + with such true humility, and blest + with so much Christian meekness, as + made her worthy of a more memorable + Monument. + She dyed! (Alas, that she is dead!) + the 17th of April, 1662, aged 52. + Study to be like her. + + + * * * * * + + + + + LETTER TO EDWARD WARD + + 1670. + + + + +[Preserved among the MSS. in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. +First printed in "Notes and Queries," May 17, 1856.] + + + +_ffor my worthy frend_ Mr. EDWARD WARD, _att Rodon Temple, nere unto +Lester. Att_ Mr. BABINGTONS _att Rodon Temple._ + +S'r., +I came well from Winton to London, about 3 weikes past: at that time I +left Do'r Hawkins well: and my dafter (after a greate danger of child +berth) not very well, but by a late letter from him, I heare they be +boeth in good health. + +The doctor did tell me a gowne and some bookes of y'rs were in danger to +be lost, though he had made (at a distance) many inquiries after them, +and intreated others to doe so too, but yet inefectually. He theirfore +intreated me to undertake a search: and I have donne it so succesfuly +that uppon thursday the 24th instant they were d'd to that letter carryer +that Inns at the Rose in Smithfeild, and with them the Life of M'r. George +Herbert (and 3 others) wrapt up in a paper and directed to you at Rodon +Temple, the booke not tyed to the bundell, but of it selfe. The bundell +cost me 3s. 8d. carryage to London, and I hope it will now come safe to +your hands. + +What I have to write more is my heartie wishes for y'r hapines, for I am +y'r affec. frend and seruant, + IZAAK WALTON. +Nou'r 26th, 1670. + +If you incline to write to me, direct your letter to be left at M'r. +Grinsells, a grocer in King streite in Westminster. Much good doe you +with the booke, w'ch I wish better. + + + * * * * * + + + + + DEDICATION OF THE THIRD EDITION + OF RELIQUIAE WOTTONIANAE. + + 1672. + + + + +[Reliquiae Wottonianae: or a Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems; with +Characters of Sundry Personages: and other Incomparable Pieces of Language +and Art. Also Additional Letters to several Persons, not before Printed. +By the Curious Pencil of the Ever Memorable Sir Henry Wotton, K't, Late +Provost of Eaton Colledge. The Third Edition, with large Additions. +London: Printed by T. Roycroft, for R. Marriott, F. Tyton, T. Collins, +and J. Ford, 1672.] + + + +_To the Right Honourable_ PHILIP _Earl of Chesterfield, Lord Stanhop of +Shelford._ + +MY LORD, + +I have conceived many Reasons, why I ought in Justice to Dedicate these +Reliques of Your Great Uncle, Sir Henry Wotton, to Your Lordship; some +of which are, that both Your Grand-mother and Mother had a double Right +to them by a Dedication when first made Publick; as also, for their +assisting me then, and since, with many Material Informations for the +Writing his Life; and for giving me many of the Letters that have fallen +from his curious Pen: so that they being now dead, these Reliques descend +to You, as Heir to them, and the Inheritor of the memorable Bocton Palace, +the Place of his Birth, where so many of the Ancient, and Prudent, and +Valiant Family of the Wottons lie now Buried; whose remarkable Monuments +You have lately Beautified, and to them added so many of so great Worth, +as hath made it appear, that at the Erecting and Adorning them, You were +above the thought of Charge, that they might, if possible, (for 'twas no +easie undertaking) hold some proportion with the Merits of Your Ancestors. + +My Lord, These are a part of many more Reasons that have inclin'd me to +this Dedication; and these, with the Example of a Liberty that is not +given, but now too usually taken by many Scriblers, to make trifling +Dedications, might have begot a boldness in some Men of as mean as my +mean Abilities to have undertaken this. But indeed, my Lord, though I was +ambitious enough of undertaking it; yet, as Sir Henry Wotton hath said +in a Piece of his own Character, _That he was condemn'd by Nature to a +bashfulness in making Requests_: so I find myself (pardon the Parallel) +so like him in this, that if I had not had more Reasons then I have yet +exprest, these alone had not been powerful enough to have created a +Confidence in me to have attempted it. Two of my unexprest Reasons are, +(_give me leave to tell them to Your Lordship and the World_) that Sir +Henry Wotton, whose many Merits made him an Ornament even to Your Family, +was yet so humble, as to acknowledge me to be his Friend; and died in a +belief that I was so: since which time, I have made him the best return +of my Gratitude for his Condescention, that I have been able to express, +or he capable of receiving: and, am pleased with my self for so doing. + +My other Reason of this boldness, is, an incouragement (_very like a +command_) from Your worthy Cousin, and my Friend, _Mr. Charles Cotton_, who +hath assured me, that You are such a Lover of the Memory of Your Generous +Unkle, Sir Henry Wotton, that if there were no other Reason then my +endeavors to preserve it, yet, that that alone would secure this +Dedication from being unacceptable. + +I wish, that nor he, nor I be mistaken; and that I were able to make You +a more Worthy Present. + My Lord, I am and will be + Your Humble and most + Affectionate Servant, + IZAAK WALTON. + +Feb. 27, 1672. + + + * * * * * + + + + + LETTER TO MARRIOTT + + 1673. + + + + +[The original is preserved in Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and was +printed for the first time in Sir Harris Nicolas' Life of Walton +(Pickering, 1837), lxxix, lxxx.] + + + +M'R. MARRIOTT, + +I have received Bentevolio, and in it M'r. Her's. life; I thank you for +both. I have since I saw you received from M'r. Milington so much of M'r. +Hales his life as M'r. Faringdon had writ; and have made many inquiries +concerning him of many that knew him, namely of M'rs. Powny, of Windsor, +(at whose house he died), and as I have heard, so have set them down, that +my memory might not lose them. M'r. Mountague did at my being in Windsor +promise me to summon his memory, and set down what he knew of him. This I +desired him to do at his best leisure, and write it down, and he that knew +him and all his affairs best of any man is like to do it very well, +because I think he will do it affectionately, so that if M'r. Fulman make +his queries concerning that part of his life spent in Oxford, he will +have many, and good, I mean true informations from M'r. Faringdon, till +he came thither, and by me and my means since he came to Eton. + +This I write that you may inform M'r. Fulman of it, and I pray let him +know I will not yet give over my queries; and let him know that I hope to +meet him and the Parliament in health and in London in October, and then +and there deliver up my collections to him. In the mean time I wish him +and you health; and pray let him know it either by your writing to him, +or sending him this of mine. + + God keep us all in his favour, + his and your friend to serve you, + IZAAK WALTON. + +Winchester, 24th August, 1673. + + + * * * * * + + + + + PREFACE TO THEALMA AND + CLEARCHUS. + + 1678. + + + + +[Thealma and Clearchus, a Pastoral History, in smooth and easie Verse. +Written long since, By John Chalkhill, Esq.; an Acquaintant and Friend of +Edmund Spencer. London: Printed for Benj. Tooke, at the Ship in S. Paul's +Church-yard, 1683.] + + + + +_The Preface._ + +The Reader will find in this Book, what the Title declares, A Pastoral +History, in smooth and easie Verse; and will in it find many Hopes and +Fears finely painted, and feelingly express'd. And he will find the first +so often disappointed, when fullest of desire and expectation; and the +later, so often, so strangely, and so unexpectedly reliev'd, by an +unforeseen Providence, as may beget in him wonder and amazement. + +And the Reader will here also meet with Passions heightned by easie and +fit descriptions of Joy and Sorrow; and find also such various events +and rewards of innocent Truth and undissembled Honesty, as is like to +leave in him (if he be a good natur'd Reader) more sympathizing and +virtuous Impressions, than ten times so much time spent in impertinent, +critical, and needless Disputes about Religion: and I heartily wish it may +do so. + +And, I have also this truth to say of the Author, that he was in his time +a man generally known, and as well belov'd; for he was humble, and obliging +in his behaviour, a Gentleman, a Scholar, very innocent and prudent: and +indeed his whole life was useful, quiet, and virtuous. God send the Story +may meet with, or make all Readers like him. + I.W.[1] +May 7, 1678. + + +FOOTNOTES + +[1] The Poem of Thealma and Clearchus was left in an unfinished state: +it terminates abruptly with the half line + + "Thealma lives"-- + +Upon which Walton adds + + _And here the Author dy'd, and I hope the Reader will be sorry._ + + + * * * * * + + + + + LETTER TO JOHN AUBREY. + + 1680. + + + + +[The original is amongst Aubrey's MSS. in the Ashmolian Museum: annexed +to it is the following note by Aubrey: "This account I received from Mr. +Isaac Walton (who wrote Dr. Donne's Life), &c. Decemb. 2, 1680, he being +then eighty-seven years of age. This is his own hand-writing, I.A." _See +Walton's Lives, With Notes and the Life of the Author by Thomas Zouch, +third edition. York, 1817._ Vol. II. pp. 353-356.] + + + +_ffor y'r friends q'ue this._ + +I only knew Ben Jonson: But my Lord of Winton knew him very well; and +says, he was in the 6th, that is, the uppermost fforme in Westminster +scole, at which time his father dyed, and his mother married a brickelayer, +who made him (much against his will) help him in his trade; but in a short +time, his scolemaister, M'r. Camden, got him a better imployment, which +was to atend or acompany a son of Sir Walter Rauley's in his travills. +Within a short time after their return, they parted (I think not in cole +bloud) and with a love sutable to what they had in their travilles (not +to be commended). And then Ben began to set up for himself in the trade +by which he got his subsistance and fame, of which I need not give any +account. He got in time to have a 100£ a yeare from the king, also a +pension from the cittie, and the like from many of the nobilitie and some +of the gentry, w'ch was well pay'd, for love or fere of his railing in +verse, or prose, or boeth. My lord told me, he told him he was (in his +long retyrement and sickness, when he saw him, which was often) much +afflickted, that hee had profained the scripture in his playes, and +lamented it with horror: yet that, at that time of his long retyrement, +his pension (so much as came in) was giuen to a woman that gouern'd him +(with whome he liu'd and dyed near the Abie in Westminster); and that +nether he nor she tooke too much care for next weike: and wood be sure +not to want wine: of w'ch he usually tooke too much before he went to +bed, if not oftener and soner. My lord tells me, he knowes not, but +thinks he was born in Westminster. The question may be put to Mr. Wood +very easily upon what grounds he is positive as to his being born their; +he is a friendly man, and will resolve it. So much for braue Ben. You will +not think the rest so tedyous as I doe this. + +ffor y'r 2 and 3 q'ue of Mr. Hill, and Bilingsley, I do neither know nor +can learn any thing worth teling you. + +for y'r two remaining q'ue of Mr. Warner, and Mr. Harriott this: + +Mr. Warner did long and constantly lodg nere the water-stares, or market, +in Woolstable. Woolstable is a place not far from Charing-Crosse, and +nerer to Northumberland-house. My lord of Winchester tells me, he knew +him, and that he sayde, he first found out the cerculation of the blood, +and discover'd it to Dr. Haruie (who said that 'twas he (himselfe) that +found it) for which he is so memorally famose. Warner had a pension of 40l. +a yeare from that Earle of Northumberland that lay so long a prisner in +the Towre, and som allowance from Sir Tho. Aylesbury, and with whom he +usually spent his sumer in Windsor Park, and was welcom, for he was +harmles and quet. His winter was spent at the Woolstable, where he dyed +in the time of the parlement of 1640, of which or whome, he was no louer. + +Mr. Herriott, my lord tells me, he knew also: That he was a more gentile +man than Warner. That he had 120£ a yeare pension from the said Earle +(who was a louer of their studyes), and his lodgings in Syon-house, where +he thinks, or believes, he dyed. + +This is all I know or can learne for your friend; which I wish may be +worth the time and trouble of reading it. + I.W. + +Nou'r. 22, 80. + + + * * * * * + + + + + IZAAK WALTON'S WILL. + + 1683. + + + + +August the 9th, 1683. + +In the name of God Amen. I Izaak Walton the elder of Winchester being +this present day in the neintyeth yeare of my age and in perfect memory +for wich praysed be God: but Considering how sodainly I may be deprived +of boeth doe therfore make this my last will and testament as followeth. +And first I doe [declare] my beleife to be that their is only one God +who hath made the whole world and me and all mankinde to whome I shall +give an acount of all my actions which are not to be justified, but I hope +pardoned for the merits of my saviour Jesus.--And because [the profession +of] Cristianity does at this time, seime to be subdevided into papist and +protestant, I take it to be at least convenient to declare my beleife to +be in all poynts of faith, as the Church of England now professeth. And +this I doe the rather, because of a very long and very trew friendmip +with some of the Roman Church. + +And for my worldly estate, (which I have nether got by falshood or +flattery or the extreme crewelty of the law of this nation,) I doe hereby +give and bequeth it as followeth.--First I give my son-in-law Doc'r. +Hawkins and to his Wife, to them I give all my tytell and right of or in +a part of a howse and mop in Pater-noster-rowe in London: which I hold by +lease from the Lord Bishop of London for about 50 years to come and I +doe also give to them all my right and tytell of or to a howse in +Chansery-lane, London; where in M'rs. Greinwood now dwelleth, in which is +now about 16 years to come. I give these two leases to them, they saving +my executor from all damage concerning the same. (And I doe also give to +my saide dafter all my books this day at Winchester and Droxford: and +what ever ells I can call mine their, except a trunk of linen w'ch I give +my son Izaak Walton, but if he doe not marry, or use the saide linen +himselfe, then I give the same to my grand-doughter Anne Hawkins). + +And I give to my son Izaak, all my right and tytell to a lease of +Norington farme, which I hold from the lord B'p. of Winton. + +And I doe also give him all my right and tytell to a farme or land near +to Stafford: which I bought of M'r. Walter Noell: I say, I give it to him +and [his] heares for ever, but upon the condition following. Namely--If +my sone shall not marry before he shall be of the age of forty and one +yeare; or being marryed shall dye before the saide age and leve noe son +to inherit the saide farme or land: or if his son [or sonns] shall not +live to ataine the age of twentie and one yeare, to dispose otherwayes of +it, then I give the saide farme or land to the towne or corperation of +Stafford (in which I was borne,) for the good and benifit of some of the +saide towne, as I shall direct and as followeth, but first note, that it +is at this presant time rented for 21li. 10s. a yeare (and is like to +hold the said rent, if care be taken to keipe the barne and howsing in +repaire) and I wood have and doe give ten pownd of the saide rent, to +binde out yearely two boyes, the sons of honest and pore parents to be +apprentices to som tradesmen or handy-craftmen, to the intent the saide +boyes [may] the better afterward get their owne living.--And I doe also +give five pownd yearly, out of the said rent to be given to some +meade-servant, that hath atain'd the age of twenty and [one] yeare (not +les), and dwelt long in one servis, or to som honeft pore man's daughter, +that hath atain'd to that age, to [be] paide her, at or on the day of her +marriage. + +And this being done, my will is, that what rent shall remaine of the saide +farme or land, shall be disposed of as followeth. + +First I doe give twenty shillings yearely, to be spent by the maior of +Stafford and those that shall colect the said rent: and dispose of it as +I have and shall hereafter direct. And that what mony or rent shail +remaine undisposed offe shall be imployed to buie coles for some pore +people, that shall most neide them in the said towne; the saide coles to +be delivered the last weike in Janewary, or in every first weike in +Febrewary: I say then, because I take that time to be the hardest and +most pinching times with pore people. And God reward those that shall doe +this with out partialitie and with honestie and a good contience. + +And if the saide maior and others of the saide towne of Stafford, shall +prove so necligent or dishonest as not to imploy the rent by me given as +intended and exprest in this my will, (which God forbid,) then I give the +saide rents and profits, of the saide farme or land, to the towne and +chiefe magestrats or governers of Ecles-hall, to be disposed by them in +such maner as I have ordered the disposall of it, by the towne of Stafford, +the said Farme or land being nere the towne of Ecles-hall. + +And I give to my son-in-law Doctor Hawkins, (whome I love as my owne son) +and to my dafter his wife, and my son Izaak to each of them a ring with +these words or motto;--love my memory, I.W. obiet = to the Lord B'p of +Winton a ring with this motto--a mite for a million: I.W. obiet = "And +to the freinds hearafter named I give to each of them a ring with this +motto--A friends farewell. I.W. obiet" = and my will is, the said rings +be delivered within fortie dayes of my deth. and that the price or valew +of all the saide rings shall be--l3s. 4d. a peice. + +I give to Doctor Hawkins Docto'r Donns Sermons; which I have hear'd +preacht, and read with much content, to my son Izaak I give Doc'r Sibbs +his _Soules Conflict_ and to my doughter his _Brewsed Reide_; desiring +them to reade them so, as to be well aquanted with them, and I also give +to her all my bookes at Winchester and Droxford, and what ever in those +two places are or I can call mine: except a trunk of linen, which I gave +to my son Izaak, but if he doe not live to make use of it, then I give +the same to my grand-dafter, Anne Hawkins: And I give my dafter Doc'r +Halls Works which be now at Farnham. + +To my son Izaak I give all my books, (not yet given) at Farnham Castell +and a deske of prints and pickters; also a cabinet nere my beds head, in +w'ch are som littell things that he will valew, tho of noe greate worth. + +And my will and desyre is, that he will be kind to his Ante Beacham and +his ant Rose Ken: by alowing the first about fiftie shilling a yeare in +or for bacon and cheise (not more), and paying 4li. a yeare toward the +bordin of her son's dyut to M'r. John Whitehead. for his ante Ken, I desyre +him to be kinde to her according to her necessitie and his owne abillitie. +and I comend one of her children to breide up (as I have saide I intend +to doe) if he shall be able to doe it as I know he will; for, they be +good folke. + +I give to M'r. John Darbishire the Sermons of M'r. Antony Faringdon, or +of do'r Sanderson, which my executor thinks fit to my servant, Thomas +Edghill I give five pownd in mony, and all my clothes linen and wollen +except one sute of clothes, (which I give to M'r. Holinihed, and forty +shiling) if the saide Thomas be my servant at my deth, if not my cloths +only. + +And I give my old friend M'r. Richard Marriot ten pownd in mony, to be +paid him within . 3 . months after my deth. and I desyre my son to shew +kindenes to him if he shall neide, and my son can spare it. + +And I doe hereby will and declare my son Izaak to be my sole executo'r of +this my last will and testament; and Do'r Hawkins, to see that he performs +it, which I doubt not but he will. + +I desyre my buriall may be nere the place of my deth; and free from any +ostentation or charg, but privately: this I make to be my last will, (to +which I only add the codicell for rings,) this 16. day of August, 1683. + +Witnes to this will. IZAAK WALTON. + + +The rings I give are as on the other side. + +To my brother Jon Ken. to my brother Beacham. +to my sister his wife. to my sister his wife, +to my brother Docr Ken. to the lady Anne How. +to my sister Pye. to M'rs. King Dor Philips wife. +to M'r. Francis Morley. to M'r. Valantine Harecourt. +to Sr George Vernon. to M'rs. Elyza Johnson. +to his wife. to M'rs. Mary Rogers. +to his 3 dafters to M'rs. Elyza Milward, +to M'rs. Nelson. to M'rs. Doro. Wallop. +to M'r. Rich. Walton. to M'r. Will. Milward of +to M'r. Palmer. Christ-Church, Oxford. +to M'r. Taylor. to M'r. John Darbeshire. +to M'r. Tho. Garrard. to M'r. Veudvill. +to the Lord Bp. of Sarum. to M'rs. Rock. +to M'r. Rede his Servant. to M'r. Peter White. +to my Coz. Dorothy Kenrick. to M'r. John Lloyde. +to my Coz. Lewin. to my Coz Greinsells +to M'r. Walter Higgs. ---- widow +to M'r. Cha Cotton. 16 M'rs. Dalbin must not +to M'r. Rich. Marryot. be forgotten. +---- +22 + + + + +Note that several lines are blotted } +out of this will for they are twice } +repeted: And, that this will is now } IZAAK WALTON +signed & sealed, this twenty and } +fourth day of October 1683 in the } +presence of us-- } + +Witnes, Abra. 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