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Mtaltoniana

INEDITED REMAINS IN VERSE AND
PROSE OF IZAAK WALTON

AUTHOR OF THE COMPLETE ANGLER

friTH NOTES AND PREFACE
BY

RICHARD HERNE SHEPHERD

( f I

LONDON

PICKERING AND CO.

196 PICCADILLY

1878

A-"5J7^^

CONTENTS.

1633.

1635-
1638.

I.

II.

III.

1645.

1650.
I65I.

IV.

V.

VI.

VII.

1652.

VIII.

IX.

1658.

X.

1660.

XI.

I66I.

XII.

1662. XIII.

An Elegie upon D'.' Donne.
Lines on a Portrait of Donne.
Commendatory Verfes prefixed to The

Merchants Mappe of Commerce. .
Preface to Quarks' Shepherds Oracles.
Couplet on D^ Richard Sibbes. ^
Dedication of Reliquije Wottonianae.
On the Death of William Cartwright;
Preface to Sir John SkefSngton's Heroe of

Lorenzo.
Commendatory Verfes to the Author of

Scintillula Altaris.
Dedication of the Life of Donne and Ad-

vertifement to the Reader.-
Daman and Dorus : An humble Eglog.
To my Reverend Friend the Author of The

Synagogue.
Epitaph on his Second Wife, Anne Ken.
b * 1670.

CONTENTS.

1670. ■ XIV. Letter to Edward Ward.

1672. XV. Dedication of the Third Edition of Re-

liquiae WottoniansE.

1673. XVI. Letter to Marriott.

1678. XVir. Preface &c. to Thealma & Clearchus.

1680. XVIII. Letter to |ohn Aubrey.

1683. XIX. Izaak Walton's Laft Will and Teftament.

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PREFACE.

EW men who have written books have
been able to win fo large a fhare of
the perfonal afFeftion of their readers
as honeft Izaak Walton has done, and
few books are laid down with fo genuine a feel-
ing of regret as the "Complete Angler" certainly
is, that they are no longer. " One of the gentleft
and tendereft fpirits of the feventeenth century,"
we all know his dear old face, with its cheerful,
happy, ferene look, and we fhould all have liked
to accompany him on one of thofe angling excur-
(ions from Tottenham High Crofs, and to have
liftened to the quaint, garrulous, fportive talk, the
outcome of a religion which was like his homely
garb, not too good for every-d^y wear. We fee
him, now diligent in his bufinefs, now commemo-
rating the virtues of that clufter of fcholars and
b churchmen

PREFACE.

churchmen with whofe friendihip he was favoured
in youth, and teaching his young brother-in-law,
Thomas Ken, to walk in their faintly footfteps,
— now bufy with his rod and line, or walking and
talking with a friend, flaying now and then to
quaff an honeft glafs at a wayfide ale-houfe —
leading a fimple, cheerful, blamelefs life

" Thro' near a century of pleafant years." *

* " Happy old man, whofe worth all mankind knows

Except himfelf, who charitably fliows

The ready road to Virtue, and to Praife,

The road to' many long, and happy days ;

The noble arts of generous piety,

And how to compafs true felicity.

he knows no anxious cares.

Thro' near a Century of pleafant years ;

Eafy he lives and cheerful Ihall he die,

Weil fpoken of by late pofterity."
June 5, 1683.
(Flatmaris Commendatory Verfes prefixed to " The alma and

Clear chuss " Poems and S^ngs by Thomas Flat man. Third

Edition.)

We

PREFACE.

We have faid that the reader regrets that Wal-
ton fhould have left fo httle behind him : his
" Angler " and his Lives are all that is known to
moft. But we are now enabled to prefent thofe
who love his memory with a coUedtion of fugitive
pieces, in verfe and profe, extending in date of com-
pofition over a period of fifty years, — beginning
with the Elegy on Donne, in 1633, and termi-
nating only with his death in 1683. All thefe,
however unambitious, are more or lefs charadber-
iftic of the man, and impregnated with the fame
fpirit of genial piety that diftinguifhes the two well-
known books to which they form a fupplement.

Walton's devotion to literature muft have be-
gun at an early age ; for in a little poem, entitled
7'he Love of Amos and Laura, published in 1 6 1 9,
when he was only twenty-fix, and attributed
varioufly to Samuel Purchas, author of " The
Pilgrims," and to Samuel Page, we find the fol-
lowing dedication to him : —

b a "To

PREFACE.

"To MY APPROVED
AND MUCH RESPEC-
TED FRIEND, Iz. Wa.

" To thee, thou more then thrice beloved friend,

I too unworthy of fo great a blifle :

Thefe harOi-tun'd lines I here to thee commend.

Thou being caufe it is now as it is :

For hadft thou held thy tongue, by filence might
Thefe have beene buried in obliuio'us night.

" If they were pleafmg, I would call them thine,

And difauow my title to the verfe:

But being bad, I needes muft call them mine.

No ill thing can be cloathed in thy verfe.

Accept them then, and where I have offended,
Rafe thou it out, and let it be amended.

What poems Walton wrote in his youth, we
have now no means of knowing ; it has not been

* The Love of Amos and Laura. Written by S. P. London
Printed for R ichard Hawkins, dwelling in Chancery- L ane, neere
Serieants Inne, 1 6 1 9. Printed at the end of a volume entitled,
Alalia, Philoparthens louing Folly, Sec, which, from its being

difcovered

PREFACE.

difcovered that any have been printed, unlefs we
adopt the theory advocated by Mr. Singer,* and
by a writer in the " Retrofpedive Review," f that
the poem of Thealma and Clear chus, which he
pubhfhed in the laft year of his life, as a poft-
humous fragment of his relation John Chalkhill,
was really a juvenile work of his own. Some
plaufibility is lent to this notion by the fad; that
Walton fpeaks of the author with fo much re-
ticence and referve in his preface to the volume,

figned at the end with the initials "J. C," has been attri-
buted to Walton's friend, John Chalkhill, whofe pofthumous
poem, Thealma and Clearchus, he publiftied in the laft year
of his life. The lines to Walton do not appear in the earlier
quarto edition of the book iffued by the fame publilher in
1613, or in the later quarto of 1628.

* Thealma and Clearchus : a P aft oral Romance, by John
Chalkhill. Firft Publiftied by Ifaac Walton, 1683. A New
Edition. Revijed and CorreBed {by S. W. Singer). Chifwich :
iSzo.

t Vol. iv. (1821), pp. 230-249.

and

PREFACE.

and alfo that in introducing two of Chalkhill's
fongs into the " Complete Angler," he does not
beftow on them the cuftomary words of com-
mendation. This theory has been rebutted by
others, who aflert that Walton was of too truthful
and guilelefs a nature to refort to fuch an artifice.
We confefs that we are unable to fee anything
difhoneft in the adoption, as a pfeudonym, of the
name of a deceafed friend, or anything more than
Walton appears to have done on another occa-
sion when he publiflied his two letters on " Love
and Truth," It is certain, however, that a family
of Chalkhills exifted, with whom Walton was
clofely connefted by his marriage with the fifter
of Bifhop Ken. But that an " acquaintant and
friend of Edmund Spenfer," capable of writing
fuch a poem as Thealma and Clearchus, fliould
have kept his talents fo concealed, that in an age
of commendatory verfes no flighteft contem-
porary record of him exifts — is, to fay the leaft,

extraordinary.

PREFACE.

extraordinary. There are cogent arguments then
on both fides of the queftion, and there is very
little pofitive proof on either: fo we muft be
content to leave the matter in fome doubt and
obfcurity.

The firft produflion to which our author
attached the well-known fignature of " Iz. Wa."
was an Elegy on the Death of Dr. Donne, the
Dean of St. Paul's, prefixed to a colledion of
Donne's Poems. Walton was then forty years
of age. From this time forward we find hijn
more or lefs engaged, at not very long intervals,
on literary labours, till the very year of his
death.

The care which Walton fpent on his produc-
tions feems to have been very great. He wrote
and re-wrote, correfted, amended, refcinded, and
added. This very poem — the Elegy on Donne
— he completely remodelled in his old age, when
he inferted it in the colleftion of his Lives.

But

But we have thought it well to give the original
verfion here as a literary curiofity, and the firft
work of his that has come down to us. The
original Lives themfelves — efpecially thofe of
"Wotton and Donne — rwere mere sketches of what
they are in their prefent enlarged form. .

Walton had the good fortune to be thrown
very early in life into the fociety and intimacy
of men who were his fuperiors in rank and educa-
tion. But he had enough of culture, joined to
hjs inherent reverence of mind, to appreciate and
underftand all that they had and he wanted.

The preface to Sir John Skeffington's Heroe of
Lorenzo had for two centuries lain forgotten, and
efcaped the notice of Walton's biographers, till in
1852 it was difcovered by Dr. Blifs of Oxford,
and communicated by him to the late William
Pickering.

The original Spanifh work was firft publifhed
in 1630. The author's real name was not

Lorenzo,

PREFACE.

Lorenzo, but Balthazar Gracian, a Jefuit of
Aragon, who flourifhed during the firft half of
the feventeenth century, when the cultivated
ftyle took pofleffion of Spanifh profe, and rofe
to itsgreateft confideration.* It is a colledtion
of fhort, wife apothegms and maxims for the con-
dud: of life, fometimes illuftrated by ftories of
valour, or prowefs, or magnanimity, of the old
Caftilian heroes who figure in " Count Lucanpr."
The book, though now no longer read, muft have
been very popular at one time, for there exift two
or three later Englifh verfions of it, without,
however, the nervous concentration of ftyle and
idiomatic dicftion that charadberize the tranfla-
tion fent forth to the world under Walton's
aufpices.

The two Letters publifhed in 1680 under the

* Ticknor's Hiftory of Spanijh Literature (Lond. 1 849),
vol. iii. p. 177.

title

PREFACE.

title of Love and Truth, * were written refpec-
tively in the years 1668 and 1679. The evidence
of their authorfhip is twofold, and we think
quite conclufive. In one of the very few copies
known to exift, and now in the library of Emanuel
College, Cambridge, its original pofleffor, Arch-
bifhop Bancroft, has written : — " Is. Walton's 2
letters cone. y° Diftemp'. of y" Times, 1680,"
and Dr. Zouch appended to his reprint of the

* Love and Truth : / inj Two modeft and peaceaBlej Letters/
concerning! The diftempers of the prefent Times. I Written/
From a quiet and Conformable Citizen of/ London, to two
bufie and FaSious/ Shop-ieepen in Coventry./

I Pet. 4. 15.
But let none of you fuffer as a bufiebody in other mens/
matters./

London,/ Printed by M. C. for Henry Brome at the Gun/
in St. Pauls Church-yard. 1680.

Collation : 410. pp. iv. (with Title) 40 (Sig. A i and 2 ;
B to E 4).

trad

PREFACE.

tradt * a number of parallel paflages from other
acknowledged writings of Walton, of themfelves
almoft fufEcient to fix the queftion on internal
evidence alone.

In the Britifli Mufeum copy of this traft is the
following note on one of the fly-leaves in the auto-
graph of the late William Pickering : —

"The prefent is the only copy I have met with after
twenty years' fearch, excepting the one in Emanuel College,
Cambridge. W, Pickering."

The copy defcribed above [/.^,, the Emanuel
College copy] appears to be the fame edition as
the prefent [that now in the Britifli Mufeum],
but has the foUovjing variation. After the title-
page is printed

The Author to the Stationer
"Mr. Brome," &c,, and the Epifl:le ends with

* York, 1795, pp. X. 70.

Your

PREFACE,

" 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 correfted
with a pen, and over it written Publijher, which is
evidently in the handwriting of Walton. So Mr.
Pickering further certifies.

The following allufion towards the bottom of
p. 37 confirms the idea of Walton's authorfhip.
Speaking of Hugh Peters and John Lilbourn, the
writer fays : — " Their turbulent lives and uncom-
fortable 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 / hope truly writ by
Mr. Ifaac Walton, may in it find a perfedb pattern
for an humble and devout Chriftian to imitate,"
&c.

The following are the chief parallel paflages in
this pamphlet and in Walton's other writings, as
indicated by Zouch : —

Second

PREFACE.

Second Letter, p. 19.

I wifli as heartily as you
do that all fuch Clergy-mens
Wives as have filk Cloaths
be-daubed with Lace, and
their heads hanged about
with painted Ribands, were
enjoyned Penance for their
pride: And their Hufbands
punilht for being fo tame, or
fo lovingly-fimple, as to fuffer
them ; for, by fuch Cloaths,
they proclaim theirown Ambi-
tion, and their Hufbands folly.

And I fay the like, con-
cerning ihe\r ftriving for Pre-
cedency.

P. 20.

Arid, I confefs alfo, what
you fay of a Clergy-mans
bidding to f aft on the Eves of
Holy-days, in Lent, and the
Ember IVeeks : And I wi(h
thofe biddings were forborn,
or better praflifed by them-
felves.

Life of George Herbert.

Mr. George Herbert hav-
ing changed his fJlord and
(ilk clothes into a canonical
coat, thus warned M". Her-
bert againft this egregious folly
of ftriving for precedency: —
" You are now a minifter's
wife, and mufl. now fo far for-
get your father's houfe, as not
to claim a precedence of any
of your pariihioners," \^c.

Life of George Herbert.

One cure for the wicked-
nefs of the times would be,
for the clergy themfelves
to keep the. Ember-weeks
ftriaiy, \5c-

P. 20.

PREFACE.

p 20.

And, I wiih as heartily as
you can, that they would not
only read, but pray, the
Common Prayer ; and not
huddle it up fo fall (as too
many do) by getting into a
middle of a fecond Colleft,
before a devout Hearer can
fay Amen to the firft.

P. 20.

And now, having un-
bowelled my very foul thus
freely to you, l^c.

P. 21.
A Corrofive, or (as Solo-
mon fays of ill-gotten riches)
/tie gravel in bis teeth.

P. 21.

Thofe Bijheps and Martyrs

Life of George Herbert.

Thofe miniilers that hud-
dled up the church prayers
without a vifible reverence
and affedlion : namely, fuch
as feemed to fay the Lord's
Prayer or acolle£l in a breath.

Preface to Sanderfon's XXI
Sermons, 1655.

But fince I had thus ad-
ventured to unbowel myfelf,
and to lay open the very in-
moft thoughts of my heart.

Life ofSanderfon.
Riches fo gotten, and added
to his great ellate, would
prove like gravel in his teeth.

Life of Sir H. Wotton.

It was the advice of Sir
that

that afTifted in this Reforma-
tion, did not (as Sir Henry
Wotton faid wifely) think the
farther they went from the
Church of Rome, the nearer
they got to heaven.

P. 23.

To make the Women, the
Shop-keepers, and the mid-
dle-witted People . . . lefs
bufie, and more humble and
lowly in their own eyes, and
to think that they are neither
called, nor are fit to meddle
with, and judge of the moft
hidden and myfterious points
in Dit/i«ity,a,t\A Government
of the Church and State.

P. 36.

I defire you to look back
with me to the beginning of
the late Long Parliament
1640, at which time we
were the quieted and happieft
people in the Chriftian World.

Henry Wotton, " Take heed
of thinking the farther you go
from the Church of Rome,
the nearer you are to God."

Life of Richard Hooker.

Here the very women and
fliopkeepers were able tojudge
of predeftination, and deter-
mine what laws were fit to
be obeyed or abolifhed.

Life of Sanderfon.
Some years before the un-
happy Long Parliament, this
nation being then happy and
in peace.

To

PREFACE.

To the prefent Editor the colledtion and anno-
tation of thefe Remains has been a moft welcome
labour of love. Some of his oldefl: and moft
cherifhqd memories conneft themfelves with the
author of the " Complete Angler." That book
was one of the firft that he ever read with real
and genuine delight ; and even before reading
days commenced, in the earlieft dawn of memory,
the place where Walton had cut his familiar fig-
nature of " Iz. Wa." on Chaucer's tomb in Weft-
minfter Abbey, was pointed out to him often by
a kindred fpirit now here no more. The name
of Walton will alfo be found enfhrined in the
earlieft profe produftion * to which the Editor
prefixed his own name.

R. H. S.

* The School of Pant agruel, Sunbury, 1862, p. 9.

AN ELEGIE UPON D». DONNE.
1633-

[Juvenilia j

\Juvenilia: or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes, written ^
by I. Donne. London, Printed by E. P. for Henry Seyle, and
are to be fold at the figne of the Tygers bead, in Saint Pauls
Cburcb-yard, Anno Dom. 1633 (pp. 38Z-384).

Poems, by J. D. with Elegies on the Author's Death.
London Printed by M. F.for John Marriot, and are to be
fold at his Shop in S'. Dunftans Church-yard in Fleet-freet,

1635-

The text is printed from the revifed verfion of 1635, and
the original readings of 1633 are given at the foot of the
page.]

./

An

An Elegie upon D^. Donne.

|UR Tionne is dead % England fhould
mourne, may fay
We had a man where language chofe
to ftay

And fhewher graceful! power. ^ I would not praife
That and his vaft wit (which in thefe vaine dayes
Make many proud) but, as they ferv'd to unlock
That Cabinet, his minde : where fuch a ftock
Of knowledge was repof'd, as all tement
(Or ihould) this generall caufe of difcontent.

And I rejoyce I am not fo fevere,
But (as I write a line) to'weepe a teare

1 In the edition of 1633, the poem opens thus : — •
Is Donne, great Donne deceaf 'd ? then Engknd fey
Thou'haft loft a man where language chofe to ftay
And fliew it's gracefull power, i£c.

For

WALrONIANA.

For his deceafe ; Such fad extremities
May make fuch men as I write Elegies.

And wonder not ; for, when a general! lofle
Falls on a nation, and they flight the crofle,
God hath raif 'd Prophets to awaken them
From ftupifadtion ; witnefle my milde pen.
Not uf 'd to upjbraid the world, though now it muft
Freely and boldly, for, the caufe is juft.

Dull age. Oh I would fparethee,butth'art worfe.
Thou art npt onely dull, but haft a curfe
Of black ingratitude ; if not, couldft thou
Part with miraculous Donne, and make no vow
For thee, and thine, fucceflively to pay
A fad remembrance to his dying day ?

Did his youth fcatter Poetry, wherein
Was all Philofophy? was every finne,
Charafter'd in his Satyrs ? Made fo foule
That fome have fear'd their fliapes, and kept their

foule
Safer by reading verfe ? Did he give dayes

Paft

WALTONIANA.

Paft marble monuments, to thofe, whofe praife
He would perpetuate ? Did he (I feare
The dull will doubt :) thefe at his twentieth year ?
But, more matur'd ; Did his full foule conceive,
And in harmonious-holy-numbers weave
A*Crown of Jacred/onnets, fit to adorne *La Corona.
A dying Martyrs brow : of, to be worne
On that bleft head oiMfiry Magdalen,
After fhe wip'd Chrifts feet, but not till then ?
Did hee (fit for fuch penitents as fhee
And he to ufe) leave us a Litany,
Which all devout men love, and flxre, it fhall.
As times grow better, grow more claflicall ?
Did he write Hymnes, for piety, for wit,^^
Equall to thofe, great grave Prudentius writ ?
Spake he all Languages ? knew he all Lawes ?
The grounds and ufe of Phyjick ; but becaufe
'Twas mercenary, wav'd it ? Went to fee

• for piety and wit, — 16133.

That

l^

WALTONIANA.

That blefTed place of Chrijis nativity ?
Did he returne and preach him ? preach him fo
As fince S. Paul none did, none could? Thofe know,
(Such as were bleft to heare him) this is truth.*
i)id he confirm thy aged ? ^ convert thy youth ?
Did he thefe wonders ? And is this deare lofle
Mourn'd by fo few ? (few for fo great a crofle.)

But fure the filent are ambitious all
To be Clofe Mourners at his Funerall;
If not; In common pitty they forbare
By repetitions to renew our care ;
Or, knowing, griefe conceiv'd, conceal'd, confumes
Man irreparably, (as poyfon'd fumes
Doe wafte the braine) make filence a fafe way.
To' inlarge the Soule from thefe walls, mud and clay,
(Materials of this body) to remaine
With Donne in heaven, where no promifcuous pain

* As none but hee did, or could do? They know
(Such as were bleft to heare him know) 'tis truth.-

* age in the edition of 1 63 3.

-1633-

Leflens

WALTONIANA.

Leflens the joy we have, for, with him^ all
Are fatisfy'd with^'oy^j ejjentiall.

Dwell on this joy my thoughts; oh, doe not calU
Griefe back, by thinking of his Funerall ;
Forget hee lov'd mee ; Wafte not my fad yeares ;
(Which haft to Davids feventy,) fiU'd with feares
And forrow for his death ; Forget his parts.
Which finde a living grave in good mens hearts ;
And, (for, my firft is dayly payd for finne)
Forget to pay my fecond figh for him :
Forget his powerful! preaching ; and forget
I am his Convert. Oh my frailty ! let
My flefli be no more heard, it will obtrude
This lethargy : fo fhould my gratitude,
My flowes^ of gratitude fhould fo be broke ;
Which can no more be, than Domes vertues fpoke
By any but himfelfe ; for which caufe, I

• Mythoughts, Dwell on this Joy, and do not call — 1633.

* vowes in the edition of 1633.

Write

Write no Encomium, but this Elegie^
Which, as a free-will-offting, I here give
Fame, and the world, and parting with it grieve
I want abilities, fit to fet forth
A monument, great, as Donnes matchlefle worth.

Iz. Wa.

'^ Write no Encomium, but an Elegie.

Here the poem clofed in the edition of 1633.

LINES

f^K3^tt«^W5 e»«$««^^4^

LINES ON A PORTRAIT OF DONNE IN

HIS EIGHTEENTH YEAR.

1635.

t

[Engraved under William Marfhall's Portrait of Donne,
" Anno Dni. 1591. jEtatis fuap, 18," prefixed to the fecond
edition of Donne's Poems, 1635.]

On

WALrONIANA,

On a Portrait o/' Donne taken in his
eighteenth year,

HIS was for youth, Strength, Mirth, and
wit that Time
Moft count their golden Age ; but
t'was not thine.
Thine was thy later yeares, fo much refind
From youths Drofle, Mirth & wit; as thy pure

mind
Thought (hke the Angels) nothing but the Praife
Of thy Creator, in thoTe laft, beft Dayes.

Witnesthis Booke, (thy Embleme) which begins
With Love ; but endes, with Sighes, & Teares
for fins.

Iz:Wa:

COMMENDATORY VERSES PREFIXED TO

THE MERCHANTS MAPPE OF

COMMERCE.

1638.

[The

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[The Merchants Mappe of Commerce : wherein the Uni-
verfall Manner and Matter of Trade, is compendioufly
handled. By Lewes Roberts, Merchant. At London,
Printed by R; O. for Ralph Mabb MDCxxxvni. /o/.

The Second Edition, Corredled and much En-
larged. London, mdclxxi. _/»/.]

In

l^

^g^^gii^lgi

U^AUrONIANA,

Inpraife of my friend the Author,

and his Booke,

To THE Reader.

\V thou would'ft be a States-man, and
furvay
Kingdomes for information ; heres a
way ,

Made plaine, and eafie : fitter far for thee
Then great Ortelius his Geografhie.

If thou would'ft be a Gentleman, in more
Then title onely; this Map yeelds thee ftore
Of Obfervations, fit for Ornament,
Or ufe, or to give curious eares content.

If

WALTONIANA.

If thou would'ft be a Merchant, buy this Booke
For 'tis a prize worth gold ; and doe not looke
Daily for fuch disburfements ; no, 'tis rare,
Ajjd ihould be caft up with thy richeft ware.

Reader, if thou be any, or all three ;
(For thefe may meet and make a harmonie)
Then prayfe this Author for his ufefull paines,
Whofe aime is publike good, not private gaines.

Iz. Wa.

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PREFACE TO QUARLES'S SHEPHERDS
ORACLES.

1645.

[The

[Ths Shepheards Oracles : Delivered in Certain Eglo-
giies. By Fra : Quarles. London, Printed by M. F. for
John Marriot and Richard Marriot, and are to be fold at
their fhop in S. Dunftans Church-yard Fleetftreet, under the
Dyall. 1646.]

ro

WAUrONIANA.

To the Reader.

Reader,

sHOUGH the Authour had fome years
before his lamented death, compof'd,
review'd,andcorre6ted thefe Eglogues;
yet, he left no Epiftle to the Reader,
but onely a Title, and a blanke leafe for that purpofe.
Whether he meant fome Allegorical! expofition
of the Shepheards names, or their Eglogues, is
doubtfuU : but 'tis certain, that as they are, they
appear a perfed pattern of the Authour ; whole
perfon, and minde, were both lovely, and his con-
verfation fuch as diftill'd pleafure, knowledge, and
vertue, into his friends and acquaintance.

'Tis coiifeft, thefe Eglogues are not fo wholly
divine as many of his publilht Meditations, which

fpeak

/

WALTONIANA.

fpeak his affections to he Jet upon things that are
above, and yet even fuch men have their intermitted
howres,and (as their company gives occafion) com-
mixtures of heavenly and earthly thoughts.

You are therefore requefted to fancy him caft by
fortune into the company of fome 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 felfe
" to give light to us mortals) walking a gentle pace
" towards a Brook (whofe Spring-head was not far
" diftant from his peacefull habitation) fitted with
" Angle, Lanes, and Flyes : Flyes proper for that
" feafon (being the fruitfuU Month of May;) in-
" tending all diligence to beguile the timorous
" Trout, (with , which that watry element
" abounded) obferv'd a more then common con-
" courfe of Shepheards, all bending their unwearied
" fteps towards a pleafant Meadow within his pre-

fent

kmmm

WALTONIANA.

■ fent pro{pe(5l,and had his eyes made more happy
• to behold the two fair Shepheardefles Amaryllis
'■ and Aminta ftrewing the foot-paths with Lillies,

and Ladyfmocks, fo newly gathered by their
fair hands, that they yet fmelt more fweet then
the morning, and immediately met (attended

■ with Clora Clorinda, and many other Wood-

■ nymphs) the fair and vertuous Parthenia : who

■ after a courteous falutation and inquiry of his
' intended Journey, told him the neighbour-Shep-

■ heards 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 defigned her Mis-
' trefle of a Love-feaft, which was to be kept that
' prefent day, in an Arbour built that morning, for
' that purpofe ; fhe told him alfo, that Orpheus
' would bee there, and bring his Harp, Pan his
' Pipe, and Titerus his Oaten-reed, to make mufick
' at this feaft ; fliee therefore perfwaded him, not to
' lofe, but change that dayes pleafure ; before he

could

WALTONIANA,

" could return an anfwer they were unawares en-
" tred into a living moving Lane, made of Shep-
" heards and Eilgrimes ; who had that morning
" meafured many miles to be eye-witnefles of that
" days pleafure ; this Lane led them into a large
" Arbour, whofe wals were made of the yeelding
" Willow, and fmooth Beech boughs : and covered
" over with Sycamore leaves, and Honyfuccles."

I might now tell in what manner (after her firft
entrance into this Arbour) Philoclea {Fhiloclea the
fair Arcadian Shepheardefle) crown'd her Temples
with a Garland, with what flowers, and by whom
'twas made; I might tell what guefls (befides
Aftrea and Adonis) were at this feaft ; and who
(befide Mercury) waited at the Table, this I might
tell : but may not, cannot exprefle what muficlc
the Gods and Wood-nymphs made within ; and
the Linits, Larks, and Nightingales about this
Arbour, during this holy day : which began in
harmlefle mirth, and (for Bacchus and his gang

were

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were abfent) ended in love and peace, which Van
(for he onely can doe it) continue in Arcadia^ and
rejiore to the difturbed IJland of Britannia, and
grant that each honeft Shepheard may again Jit
under his own Vine and Fig-tree., and feed his own
flock, and with Iffve enjoy the fruits of peace, and be
more thankfuU.

Reader, at this time and place, the Authour con-
trafted a friendfhip with certain fingle-hearted
Shepheards : with whom (as he return 'd from his
River-recreations) he often refted himfelfe, and
whileft in the calm evening their flocks fed about
them, heard that difcourfe, which (with the Shep-
heards names) is prefented in thefe Eglogues.

23 Novem. 1645.

COUPLET ON DR. RICHARD SIBBES.
1650.

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[Written

[Written by Izaak Walton in his copy of D'. Richard
Sibbes's work. The Returning Batkfiider, 4*'., 1650, prefervcd
in the Cathedral Library, Salifbary. See Sir Harris Nicolas'
Memoir of Walton, dv.]

Of

WAUrONIANA.

F this bleft man let this juft praife be
given.
Heaven was in him, before he was in
heaven.

IzAAK Walton.

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DEDICATION OF RELIQUIAE

WOTTONIAN^.

1651.

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[Reliquiae Wottonianas, or, a Colleftion of Lives, Letters,
Poems ; with Charafters of Sundry Perfonages : and other
Incomparable Pieces of Language and Art. By The curious
Penfil of the Ever Memorable S'. Henry Wotton, K'., Late,
Provoft of Eton Colledg. ' London, Printed by Thomas
Maxey, for R. Marriot, G. Bedel, and T. Garthwait. 1 65 1 .]

IVAUrONIANA.

To the Right Honourabte The Lady Mary

Wotton Baronnefs, and to her Three

Noble Daughters.

The Lady

Katherin Stanhop.
Margaret Tufton.
Ann Hales.

UNCE Bookes feeme by cuftome to
Challenge a dedicatio, Juftice would
not allow, that what either was, or con-
cern'd Sir Henry Wotton, fhould be
appropriated to any other Perfons ; Not only for
that nearnefle of Aliance and Blood (by which you
may chalenge a civil right to what was his ;) but,

by

WALtONIANA.

by a title of that intirenefle of AfFedion, which
was in you to each other, when Sir Henry Wotton
had a being upon Earth,

And fince yours was a Friendfhip made up of
generous Principles, as I cannot doubt but thefe
indeavours to preferve his Memory wil be accept-
able to all that lov'd him ; fo efpecially to you :
from whom I have had fuch incouragements as
hath imboldned me to this Dedication. Which you
are moft humbly intreated may be accented from
Your very reall fervant,

I.W.

On

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ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM

CARTWRIGHT.

1651.

[Comedies,

[Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, Vith other Poems, by M'.
William Cartwright, late Student of Chrift-Church in Ox-
ford, and Proftor of the Univerlity. London, Printed for
Humphrey Mofeley, and are to be fold at his Shop, at the
fign of the Prince's Arms in S'. Pauls Church-yard, 165 1.]

On

WAUrONIANA.

On the Death of my dear Friend Mr. William
Cartwright, relating to the fore-
going Elegies.

CANNOT keep my purpofe, but muft

give
Sorrow and Verfe their way ; nor will
I grieve

Longer in filence ; no, that poor, poor part
Of natures legacy, Verfe void of Art,
And undiflembled teares,CARTWRiGHT fhall have
Fixt on his Hearfe ; and wept into his grave.

Mufes I need you not ; for, Grief and I
Can in your abfence weave an Elegy :
Which we will do ; and often inter- weave
Sad Looks,andSighs; the ground- workmuftreceive
Such Charadlers, or be adjudg'd unfit
For my Friends fhroud ; others have fhew'd their
Wit, Learning,

WALTONIANA.

Learning, and Language fitly ; for thefe be
Debts due to his great Merits : but for me,
My aymes are like my felf, humble and low,
Too mean to fpeak his praife, too mean to fhow
The World what it hath loft in lofing thee,
Whofe Words and Deeds were perfedt Harmony,

But now 'tis loft ; loft in the filent Grave,
Loft to us Mortals, loft, 'till we ftiaU have
Admiffion to that Kingdom, where He fings
Harmonious Anthems to the King of Kings.

Sing on bleft Soul ! be as thou wast below,
A more than common inftrument to ftiow
Thy Makers praife ; fing on, whilft I lament
Thy lofs, and court a holy difcontent,
With fuchpure 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 ;
Bleflings that Kings have wifh'd, but cannot have.

Iz. Wa.

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PREFACE TO SIR JOHN SKEFFINGTON'S

HEROE OF LORENZO.

1652.

The

Mk^kt.

[The Heroe, of Lorenzo, or. The way to Eminencie and
Perfeftion. A piece of ferious Spanifli wit Originally in
that language written, and in Englifli. By Sir John Skef-
fington, Kt. and Barronet. London, printed for John Martin
and James Alleftrye at the Bell in St Pauls Church-yard.
1652.]

Let

WALTONIANA,

Let this be told the
Reader^

iHAT Sir John Skeffington (one of his
late Majefties fervants, and a ftranger
to no language of Chriftendom) did
about 40 years now paft, bring this
Hero out of Spain into England.

There they two kept company together 'till
about 12 months now paft : and then, in a retyre-
ment of that learned knights (by reafon of a fequef-
tration for his mafters caufe) a friend coming to
vifit him, they fell accidentally into a difcourfe of
the wit a.nd galaniry of the Spanijh Nation.

That difcourfe occafioned an example or two,
to be brought out of this Hero : and, thofe ex-
amples (with Sir John's choice language and illuf-

tration)

JFALTONIANA.

tration) were fo relifht by his friend (a ftranger to
the Sfanijh tongue) that he became reftles 'till he
got a promife from Sir John to tranflate the whole,
which he did in a few weeks ; and fo long as that
imployment lafted it proved an excellent diverfion
from his many fad thoughts; But he hath now
chang'd that Condition, to be pofleft of that place
into which fadnefle is not capable of entrance.

And his abfence from this world hath occafion'd
mee (who was one of thofe few that he gave leave
to know him, for he was a retyr'd man) to tdl the
Reader that I heard him fay, he had not made the
Englijh fo fhort, or few words, as the originall;
becaufe in that, the Author had expreft himfelf fo
enigmatically, that though he indevour'd to tranf-
late it plainly ; yet, he thought it was not made
comprehenfible enough for common Readers,
therefore he declar'd to me, that he intended to
make it fo by a coment on the margent ; which he
had begun, but (be it fpoke with forrow) he and

thofe

WALTONIANA,

thofe thoughts are now buried in the filent Grave,*
and my felf, with thofe very many that lov'd him,
left to lament that loiTe.

I.W.

' Compare the poem on the death of Cartwright, yy^ra; —
" But now 'tis loft j loft in the filent grave," &c.

aS$^e0l@^$Si^$8i3ll§l

COMMENDATORY VERSES TO THE

AUTHOR OF SCINTILLULA

ALTARIS.

1652.

1

[Scintillula

[Scintillula Altaris or, a Pious Refleftion on Primitive
Devotion : as to the Feafts and Fafts of the Chriftian Church,
Orthodoxally Revived. By Edward Sparke, B.D. London;
Printed by T. Maxey for Richard Marriot, and are to be
fold at his Shop in S'. Dunftan's Church-yard' in Fleetftreet,
1652.

This book reached a Seventh Edition during Walton's life-
time ; but his Commendatory Verfes are only to be found in
the firft.]

To

WAUrONIANA.

To the Author upon the fight of the
firfi fijeet of his Book.

Y worthy friend, I am much pleai'd to
know,
You have begun to pay the debt you
owe

By promife, to fo many pious friends.
In printing your choice Poerhs; it commends
Both them, and you, that they have been defir'd
By peribns of fuch Judgment; and admir'd
They muft be moft, by thofe that beft fhal know
What praife to holy Poetry we owe.

So fhall your Difquifitions too ; for, there
Choice learning, and bleft piety, appear.

All

WALTONIANA.

All ufefiill to poor Chriftians : 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 Coeleftiall Can' an ; and each Faft,
Is both the fouls direction, and repaft :
AU fo expreft, that I am glad to know
You have begun to pay the debt you owe.

Iz. Wa.

DEDICATION

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 fecond imprsflion cor-
refted and enlarged. Ecclus. 4.8. 14. He did wonders in his
life, and at i^is death his works were marvelous. London,
Printed by J. G. for R. Marriot, and are to be fold at his
Ihop under S. Dunftans Church in Fleet-ftreet. 1658.]

ro

IVALTONIANA.

To My Noble & honoured Friend Sir Robert

Holt of AJlon, in the County of

Warwick, Baronet.

Sir,

(HEN this relation of the life of Dodbor
Donne was firft made publick, it had
befides the approbation of our late
learned & eloquent King, a conjunc-
tion with the Authors moft excellent Sermons to
fupport it; and thus it. lay fome time fortified
againft prejudice ; and thofe paffions that are by
bufie and malicious men too freely vented againft
the dead.

E And

WALTONIANA,

And yet, now, after almoft twenty yeares, when
though the memory of D"'. Donne himfelf, muft
not, cannot die, fo long as men Ipeak Englifh ; yet
when I thought Time had made this relation of him
fo like my felf, as to become ufelefs 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 expofe it and me to publick ex-
ceptions ; and without thofe fupports, which we
firft had and needed, and in an Age too, in which
Truth & Innocence have not beene able to defend
themfelves from worfe then fevere cenfiires.

This I forefaw, and Nature teaching me felfe-
prefervation, and my long experience of your
abilities affuring me that in you it may in found :*
to you. Sir, do I make mine addrefles for an um-
brage and protection : and I make it with fo much
humble boldnefle, as to fay 'twere degenerous in
you not to afford it.

* Sic: probably a mifprint for "be found ?" — Ed.

For,

WAUrONIANA.

For, Sir,

D'. Donne was fo much a part of yourfelf, as to
be incorporated into your Family, by fb noble a
friendfhip, that I may fay there was a marriage of
fouls betwixt him and your* reverend *joknKmg,
Grandfather, who in his life was an '&.atUnd.
Angel of our once glorious Church, and now no
common Star in heaven.

And D'. Donne's love died not with him, but
was doubled upon his Heire, your beloved Uncle
the Bishop of fChichefter, that lives \ Hen-. King,
in this froward generation, to be an or- """^ ^•'^•
nament to his Calling. And this afFedion to him
was by D^ D. fo teftified in his life, that he then
trufted him with the very fecrets of his foul ; &
at his death, with what was deareft to him, even
his fame, eftate, & children.

And you have yet a further title to what was
D^ Donne's, by that dear affedion & friendfhip

that

WALTONIANA.

that was betwixt him and your parents, by which
he entailed a love upon yourfelf, even in your in-
fancy, which was encreafed by the early teftimonies
of. your growing merits, and by them continued,
till D. Donne put on immortality; and fo this
V mortall was turned into a love that cannot die.

And Sir, 'twas pity he was loft to you in your
minority, before you had attained a judgement to
put a true value upon the living beauties and
elegancies of his converfation ; and pitty too, that
fo much of them as were capable of fuch an expref-
lion, were not drawn by the penfil of a Tytian or a
Tentoret, by a pen equall and more lafting 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
fhort of, the Originall, will prefent you with fome
features not unHke your dead friend, and with
fewer blemifhes and more ornaments than when
'twas firft made publique : which creates a con-
tentment

WALrONIANA.

tentment to my felfe, becaufe it is the more worthy
of him, and becaufe I may with more civility intitle
you to it.

And in this defigne of doing fo, I have not a
thought of what is pretended in moft Dedications,
a Commutation for Courteftes : no indeed Sir, I put
no fuch value upon this trifle ; for your owning it
will rather increafe my Obligations. But my de-
fire is, that into whofe hands foever this fhall fall,
it may to them be a tefl:imony of my gratitude to
your felf and Family, who defcended to fuch a
degree of humility as to admit me into their
friendfhip in the dayes of my youth ; and not-
withfl:anding my many infirmities, have continued
me in it till I am become gray-headed; and as
Time has added to my yeares, have fl:ill increafed
and multiplied their favours.

This, Sir, is the intent of this Dedication : and
having made the declaration of it thus publick, I
fliall conclude it with commending them and you
to Gods deare love. I

WAUrONIANA.

I remain. Sir, what your many merits have
made me to be.

The humbleft of your Servants,

Isaac Walton,

ro

fW^

To the Reader.

lY defire is to inform and aflure you,
that fhall become my Reader, that in
that part of this following difcourfe,
which is onelynarration, I either fpeak
my own knowledge, or from the teftimony of fuch
as dare do any thing, rather than fpeak an untruth.
And for that part of it which is my own obferva-
tion or opinion, if I had a power I would not ufe
it to force any mans aflient, but leave him a liberty
to difbelieve what his own reafon inclines him to.

Next, I am to inform you, that whereas D^
Donne's life was formerly printed with his Sermons,
and then had the fame Preface or Ii>trodu6tion
to it ; I have not omitted it now, becaufe I have
no fuch confidence in what I have done, as to ap-
pear without an apology for my undertaking it.

I have faid all when I«have wiftied happinefle
to my Reader.

I.W.

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DAMAN AND DORUS.

An Humble Eglog.

Sg'*" MAY 16^0.

[Songs

[Songs and other Poems. By Alex. Brome, Gent. Lon-
don, Printed for Henry Brome, at the Gun in Ivy -Lane, 1 66 1.

The Second Edition corrected and enlarged, 1664.

The Third Edition enlarged. London, Printed for Henry
Brome, at the Star in Little Brittain, 1668.]

to

WALTONIANA.

To my ingenious Friend M^". Brome, on his
various and excellent Poems: An humble
Eglog.. Written the 29 of May, 1660.

Daman and Dorus.

Daman.

\AIL happy day I Dorus Jit down :
Now let nojigh, nor let a frown
Lodge near thy heart, or on thy brow.
y/^^King! theKing's return'dl and now
Let's banijh all fad thoughts andjing
We have our Laws, and have our King.

Dorus.

WALTONIANA.

DORUS.

'7«j true, and Iwouldftng, hut oh !
Thefe wars have Junk my heart Jo low
'"Twill not be raif'd.

Daman.

What not this day ?

Why 'tis the twenty ninth of May :

Let Rehelsjpirits Jink ; let thoje

That like the Goths and Vandals roje

To ruine Jamilies, and bring

Contempt upon our Church, our King,

And all that's dear to us, bejad;

But be not thou, let us be glad.
And, Dorus, to invite thee, look.
Here's a Colledion in this Book,
Of all thofe chearful Songs, that we
Have fung fo oft and merilie'

' Have fung with mirth and merry-gle: — 1661.

As

WALtONIANA,

As we have march'd to fight the caufe
Of Gods Anointed, and our Laws
Such Songs as make not the leaft ods
Betwixt us mortals and the Gods :
Such Songs as Virgins need not fear
To fing, or a grave Matron hear.
Here's love draft neat^ and chaft, and gay
As gardens in the month oi May ;
Here's harmony, and PFit, and Art,
To raife thy thoughts, and chear thy heart.

DORUS.

Written by whom ?

Daman.

A friend of mine.
And one that's worthy to be thine :
A CwWJwain, that knows his times
For bufinefs, and that done makes Rhymes ;
But not till then : my Friend's a man
Lov'd by the Mufes ; dear to Pan :

He

WALrONIANA.

He bleft him with a chearful heart :
And they with this fharp wit and Art,
Which he fo tempers, as no Swains
That's loyal, does or ihould complain.

DORUS.

I wou'd fain fee him :

Daman.

Go with me
Dorus, to yonder broad beech-tree,
Tihere wejhall meet him and Phillis,
Perrigot, and Amaryllis,
Tityrus, and his dear Clora,
Tom and Will, and their Paftora :
"There wee I dance, Jhake hands andjing.
We have our Laws,

God blejs the King.

Iz. Walton.

TO

*\j^ f^jy ■\D^ ^JV "^D^ *'^y* *yA^ %C^* *J^ ^fl^ ^0/'

TO MY REVEREND FRIEND THE AUTHOR

OF THE SYNAGOGUE.

1661.

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[The

[The Synagogue, or The Shadow of the Temple; Sacred
Poems and Private Ejaculations. In imitation of M'. George
Herbert. The fourth Edition correfted and enlarged. Lon-
don, Printed for Philemon Stephens, at the guilded Lyon in
S'. Pauls Churchyard, 1 66 1, p. 67.]

IVAUrONIANA.

To my Reverend Friend the Author
of the Synagogue.

Sir,

LOV'D you for your SynagoguCjbefore
I knew your perfon ; but now love you
more;

Becaufe I find
It is fo true a pidture of your mind :

Which tunes your facfed lyre
To that eternal quire ;
Where holy Herbert fits
(O fhame to prophane wits)
And fings his and your Anthems, to the praife
Of Him that is the firft and laft of dales.

Thefe holy Hymns had an Ethereal birth :
For they can raife fad fouls above the earth

F And

WALTONIANA.

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 fin,

Or lets a vertue in
To fight againfi: it ; and the Holy Ghoft
Supports my frailties, left the day be loft.

This holy war, taught by your happy pen,

The Prince of Peace approves. When we poor men

Negledt our arms.
Ware circumvefted with a world of harms.

But I will watch, and ward.

And ftand upon my guard.

And ftill confult with you.

And Herbert, and renew
My vows, and fay. Well fare his, and your heart,
The fountains of fuch facred wit and art.

Iz. Wa.

EPITAPH

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EPITAPH ON HIS SECOND WIFE,

ANNE KEN.
1662.

[In

[In Worcefter 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
" Worcefter, the zoth day."]

Ex

WALrONIANA.

Ex Terris

M.S.

Here lyeth buried fo much as

could dye of ANNE, the Wife'of

Ifaak Walton ;

who v/as

a Woman of Remarkable Prudence,-

and of the Primitive Piety; her great

and general knowledge being adorned

with fuch true humility, and bleft

with fo much Chriftian meeknefs, as

made her worthy of a more memorable

Monument.

She dyed ! (Alas, that fhe is dead !)

the 17* of April, 1662, aged 52.

Study to be like her.

»0§^igj^^^€a034'

LETTER TO EDWARD WARD.
1670.

[Preferved

[Preferved among the MSS. in the Library of Trinity
College, Dublin. Firft printed in " Notes and Queries,"
May 17, 1856.]

ffor

WAUTONIANA.

ffor my worthy frend M"". Edward Ward,
att Rodon Temple, nere vnto Lejler. Att
Mr. Babingtons att Rodon Temple.

CAME well from Winton to London,
about 3 weikes paft : at that time I
left Do'. 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 dodor did tell me agowne and fome bookes
of y" were in danger to be loft, though he had
made (at a diftance) many inquiries after them,
and. intreated others to doe fo too, but yet inefec-
tually. He theirfore intreated me to undertake a
fearch: and I have donne it fo fuccesfuly that
uppon thurfday the 24" inftant they were dd to

that

WALrONIANA,

that letter carryer that Inns at the Rofe in Smith-
feild, and with them the Life of M'. George Her-
bert (and 3 others) wrapt up in a paper and
diredled to you at Rodon Temple, the booke not
tyed to the bundell, but of it felfe. The bundell
coft me y. 8''. carryage to London, and I hope it
will now come fafe to your hands.

What I have to write more is my heartie wiflies
for y' hapines, for I am

y'. aiFec. frend and feruant,

IzAAK Walton.

Nou' 26°, 1670.

If you incline to write to me, diredb your letter
to be left at M' Grinfells, a grocer in King ftreite
in Weftminfter. Much good doe you with the
booke, w** I wifli better.

DEDICATION

'yy* '^1^ •v*^ 'jy* ^\jy* 'yV "V^* '^y*

DEDICATION OF THE THIRD EDITION

OF RELIQUIiE WOTTONIANiE.

1672.

[Reliquiae

[ReliquiEE WottonianaE : or a CoUeftion of Lives, Letters,
Poems ; with Charafters of Sundry Perfonages : and other
Incomparable Pieces of Language and Art. Alfo Additional
Letters to feveral Perfons, not before Printed. By the Curious
Pencil of the Ever Memorable Sir Henry Wotton, K', Late
Provoft of Eaton Colledge. The Third Edition, with large
Additions. London : Printed by T. Roycroft, for R. Mar-
riott, F. Tyton, T. Collins, and J. Ford, 1672.]

to

WALrONIANA.

To the Right Honourable Philip

Rarl of Chefierjield^ Lord

Stanhop of Shelf or d.

My Lord,

HAVE conceived many Reafons, why
I ought in Juftice to Dedicate thefe
ReUques of Your Great Uncle, Sir
Henry Wotton, to Your Lordfhip;
fome of which- are, that both Your Grand- mother
and Mother had a double Right to them by a
Dedication when firft made Publick ; as alfo, for
their affifting me then, and fince, with many
Material Informations for the Writing his Life ;
and for giving me many of the Letters that have
fallen from his curious Pen : fo that they being
now dead, thefe Reliques defcend tb You, as Heir

to

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to them, and the Inheritor of the memorable
Bofton Palace, the Place of his Birth, where fo
many of the Ancient, and Prudent, and Valiant
Family of the Wottons lie now Buried; whofe
remarkable Monuments Youhave lately Beautified,
and to them added fo many of fo great Worth, as
hath made it appear, that at the Eredling and
Adorning them, You were above the thought of
Charge, that they might, if poflible, (for 'twas no
eafie undertaking) hold fome proportion with the
Merits of Your Anceftors.

My Lord, Thefe are a part of many more
Reafons that have inclin'd me to this Dedication ;
and thefe, with the Example of a Liberty that is
not given, but now too ufually taken by many
Scriblers, to make trifling Dedications, might
have begot a boldnefs in fome 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

faid

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faid in a Piece of his own Chara<5ter, That he was
condemn' d by Nature to a bajhfulnejs in making
Requefis : fo I find myfelf (pardon the Parallel) fo
like him in this, that if I had not had more Reafons
then I have yet expreft, thefe alone had not been
powerful enough to have created a Confidence in
me to have attempted it. Two of my unexpreft
Reafons are, {give me leave to tell them to Your
Lordjhip and the Jf^orld) that Sir Henry Wotton,
whofe many Merits made him an Ornament even
to Your Family, was yet fo humble, as to acknow-
ledge me to be his Friend ; and died in a belief
that I was fo : fince which time, I have made him
the beft return of my Gratitude for his Condefcen-
tion, that I have been able to exprefs, or he capable
of receiving : and, am pleafed with my felf for fo
doing.

My other Reafbn of this boldnefs, is, an in-
couragement {very like a command) from Your
worthyCoufin, and my Friend, iWr. Charles Cotton,

who

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who hath affured me, that You are fuch a Lover
of the Memory of Your Generous Unkle, Sir
Henry Wotton, that if there were no other Reafon
then my endeavors to preferve it, yet, that that
alone would fecure this Dedication from being un-
acceptable.

I wifh, that nor he, nor I be miftaken ; and that
I were able to make You a more Worthy Prefent.
My Lord, I am and will be

Your Humble and moft

Affedionate Servant,

IzAAK Walton.

Feb. 27, 1672.

LETTER

mmc

LETTER TO MARRIOTT.
1673.

PI

[The

[The original is preferved in Corpus Chrifti College, Ox-
ford, and was printed for the firft time in Sir Harris Nicolas'
Life of Walton (Pickering, 1837), Ixxix, Ixxx.]

M-

WALTONIANA.

M\ Marriott,

HAVE received Bentevolio, and in it
M', Her^ life ; I thank you for both.
I have fince I faw you received from
M"". Milington fo much of M"". Hales
his life as M'. Faringdon had writ ; and have made
many inquiries concerning him of many that knew
him, namely of M". Powny, of Windfor, (at whofe
houfe hedied),and as I haye heard,fo have fet them
down, that my memory might not lofe them. M".
Mountague did at my being in Windfor promife
me to fummon his memory, and fet down what he
knew of him. This I defired him to do at his beft
leifure, and write it down, and he that knew him
and all his affairs beft of any man is like to do it

very

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very well, becaufe I think he will do it affec-
tionately, fo that if M"". Fulman make his queries
concerning that part of his life fpent in Oxford, he
will haye many, and good, I mean true informa-
tions from M"". Faringdon, till he came thither, and
by me and my means fince he came to Eton.

This I write that you may inform M'. Fulman
of it, and I pray let him know I will nbt yet give
over ray queries ; and let him know that I hope to
meet him and the Parliament in health and in Lon-
don in Odtober, and then and there deliver up my
collections to him. In the mean time I wifti him
and you health ; and pray let him know it either
by your writing to him, or fending him this of
mine..

God keep us all in his favour,

his and your friend to ferve you,

IzAAK Walton.

Wincheller, Z4th Augatl, 1673.

PREFACE

w&

PREFACE TO THEALMA AND

CLEARCHUS.

1678.

[Thealma

[Thealma and Gkarchus, a Paftoral Hiftory, in fmooth and
eafie Verfe. Written long fince. By John Chalkhill, Efq. ;
an Acquaintant and Friend of Edmund Spencer. London :
Printed for Benj. Tooke, at the Ship in S. Paul's Church-yard,
1683.]

the

WALTONIANA.

The Preface.

|HE Reader will find in this Book, what
the Title declares, A Paftoral Hiftory,
in fmooth and eafie Verfe ; and will in
it find many Hopes and Fears finely
painted, and feelingly expreff'd. And he will find
the firft fo often diiappointed, when fullest of de-
fire and expeAation ; and the later, fo often, fo
ftrangely, and fo unexpededly reUev'd, by an un-
forefeen Providence, as may beget inhim wonder
and amazement.

And the Reader will here alfo meet with Paf-
fions heightned by eafie and fit defcriptions of Joy
and Sorrow ; and find alfo fuch various events
and rewards of innocent Truth and undiflembled

Honefty

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Honefty, as is like to leave in him (if he be a good
natur'd Reader) more fympathizing and virtuous
Impreflions, than ten times fo much time fpent in
impertinent, critical, and needlefs Difputes about
Religion : and I heartily wifti it may do fo.

And,I have alfo this truth to fayof 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 in-
nocent and prudent : and indeed his whole life was
ufeful, quiet, and virtuous. God fend the Story
may meet with, or make all Readers like him.

I.W.*

May 7, 1678.

* The Poem of Thealma and Clearchus was left in an un-
finiflied (late: it terminates abruptly with the half line

" Thealma lives "

Upon which Walton adds

And here the Author dy^d,andl hope the Reader willbeforry.

LETTER

LETTER TO JOHN AUBREY.
1680.

[The

[The original is among- Aubrey's MSS. in the Afhmolean
Mufeum : annexed to it is the following note by Aubrey
" This account I received from M'. Ifaac Walton (who wrote
" D'. Donne's Life, &c. Decemb. 2, 1680, he being then
" eighty-feven 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 Zoucb, third edition. Tork,iiij, Vol.11.
PP- 353-3S6-]

''for

JVAL-rONIANA.

^'- ffor y^ ffriends q"*' this.

ONLY knew Ben Jonfon : But my
Lord of Winton knew him very well;
and fays, he was in the 6°., that is, the
uppermoft fforme in Weftminfter fcole,
at which time his father dyed, and his mother mar-
ried a brickelayer, who made him (much againfl: his
will) help him in his trade ; but in a fhort time,
his fcolemaifter, M". Camden, got him a better
imployment, which was to atend or acompanyafon
of Sir Walter Rauley's in his travills. Within a
Ihort time after their return, they parted (I think
not in cole bloud) and with a love futable to
what they had in their travilles (not to be com-
mended). And then Ben began to fet up for him-

felf

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felf in the trade by which he got his fubfiftance and
fame, of which I need not give any account. He
got in time to have a i OO;^ a yeare from the king,
alfo a penfion from the cittie, and the like from
many of the nobilitie and fome of the gentry, w*
was well pay'd, for love or fere of his railing in
verfe, or profe, or boeth. My lord told me, he
told him he was (in his long retyrement and fick-
nefs, when he faw him, which was often) much
afflickted, that hee had profained the fcripture in
his playes, and lamented it with horror : yet thatj
at that time of his long retyrement, his penfion (fo
much as came in) was giuen to a woman that
gouern'd him (with whome he liu'd and dyed near
the Abie in Weftminfter) ; and that nether he nor
fhe tooke too much care for next weike : and
wood be fure not to want wine : of w**" he ufually
tooke too much before he went to bed, if not
oftener and foner. My lord tells me, he knowes
not, but thinks he was bom in Weftminfter. The

queftion

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queflion may be put to M'. Wood very eafily upon
what grounds he is pofitive as to his being born
their ; he is a friendly man, and will refolve it. So
much for braue Ben. You will not think the reft
{o tedyous as I doe this.

fFor y"^ 1 and 3 q"= of M^ Hill, and Bilingfley,
I do neither know nor can learn any thing worth
teling you.

for y"^ two remaining q"^ of M^ Warner, and
M^ Harriott this :

M'. Warner did long and conftantly lodg nere
the water-ftares, or market, in Woolftable. Wool-
ftable is a place not far from Charing-Crofle,
and nerer to Northumberland-houfe. My lord of
Winchefter tells me, he knew him, and that he
fayde, he firft found out the cerculation of the
blood, and difcover'd it to D'. Haruie (who faid
that 'twas he (himfelfe) that found it) for which
he is fo memorally famofe. Warner had a penfion
of 40/. a yeare from that Earle of Northumberland

that

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that lay fo long a prifner in the Towre, and fbm
allowance from Sir Tho, Aylefbury, and with
whom he ufually fpent his fumer in Windfor Park,
and was welcom, for he was harmles and quet.
His winter was fpent at the Woolftable, where he
dyed in the time of the parlement of 1640, of
which or whome, he was no louer.

M'. Herriott, my lord tells me, he knew alfo :
That he was a more gentile man than Warner.
That he had 120^^ a yeare penfion from the
faid Earle (who was a louer of their ftudyes), and
his lodgings in Syon-houfe, where he thinks, or
believes, he dyed.

This is all I know or can learne for your friend;
which I wifh may be worth the time and trouble
of reading it.

I.W.

Nou'. 22, 80.

IZAAK

IZAAK WALTON'S W.ILL.
1683.

r

WALTONIANA,

Auguft the 9", 1683.

yN the name of God Amen. I Izaak
Walton the elder of Winchefter being
this prefent day in the neintyeth yeare
of my age and in perfedl memory for
wich prayfed be God : but Confidering how fo-
dainly I may be deprived of boeth doe therfore
make this my laft will and teftament as foUoweth,
And firft 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
fhall give an acount of all my adtions which are
not to be juftified, bufe I hope pardoned for the
merits of my faviour Jefus, — And becaufe [the

H profeffion

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profeffion of] Criftianity does at this time, feime
to be fubdevided into papift and proteftant, I take
it to be at leaft convenient to declare my beleife to
be in all poynts of faith, as the Church of England
nowprofeffeth. And this I doe the rather, becaufe
of a very long and very tr^w friendfliip with fome
of the Roman Church.

And for my worldly eftate, (which I have ne-
ther got by falihood or flattery or the extreme
crewelty of the law of this nation,) I doe hereby
give and bequeth it as followeth. — Firft I give
my fon-in-law Doc'. Hawkins and to his Wife, to
them I give all my tytell and right of or in a part
of a howfe and fhop in Pater-nofter-rowe in Lon-
don : which I hold by leafe from the Lord Bifhop
of London for about 50 years to come, and I doe
alfo give to them all my right and tytell of or to
a howfe in Chanfery-lane, London ; .where in M".
Greinwood now dwelleth, in which is now about
1 6 years to come. I give thefe two leafes to them,

they

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they faving my executor from all damage concern-
ing the fame. (And I doe alfo give to my faide
dafter all my books this day at Winchefter and
Droxford : and what ever ells I can call mine their,
except a trunk of linen w"^*" I give my fon Izaak
Walton, but if he doe not marry, or ufe the faide
linen himfelfe, then I give the fame to my grand-
doughter Anne Hawkins).

And I give to my fon Izaak, all my right and
tytell to a leafe of Norington farme, which I hold
from the lord B'. of Winton.

And I doe alfo give him all my right and tytell
to a farme or land near to Stafford : which I
bought of M". Walter Noell : I fay, I give it to
him and [his] heares for ever, but upon the con-
dition following. Namely — If my fone fhall not
marry before he fhall be of the age of forty and one
yeare ; or being marryed fhall dye before the faide
age and ieve noe fon to inherit the faide farme or
land : or if his fon [or fonns] fhall not live to
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WALTONIANA.

ataine the age of twetitie and one yeare, to difpofe
otherwayes of it, then I give the faide farme or
land to the towne or corperation of Stafford (in
which I was borne,) for the good and benifit of
fome of the faide towne, as I fhall dired: and as fol-
loweth. but firft note, that it is at this prefant time
rented for 21'' 10' a yeare (and is like to hold the
faid rent, if care be taken to keipe the barne and
howfing in repaire) and I wood have and doe give
ten pownd of the faide rent, to binde out yearely
two boyes, the fons of honeft and pore parents to
be apprentices to fom tradefmen or handy-craft-
men, to the intent the faide boyes [may] the better
afterward get their owne living. — And I doe alfo
give five pownd yearly, out of the faid rent to be
given to fome meade-fervant, that hath atain'd the
age of twenty and [one] yeare (not les), and dwelt
long in one fervis, or to fom honefl pore man's
daughter, that hath atain'd to that age, to [be]
paide her, at or on the day of her marriage.

And

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And this being done, my will is, that what rent
fliall remaine of the faide farrae or land, fliall be
difpofed of as foUoweth.

Firft I doe give twenty fhillings yearely, to be
fpent by the major of Stafford and thofe that fhall
coleft the faid rent : and difpofe of it as I have
and fliall hereafter dired:. And that what mony
or rent fliall remaine undifpofed offe fliall be im-
ployed to buie coles for fome pore people, that
fliall moft neide. them in the laid towne ; the faidc
coles to be delivered the laft weike in Janewary, or
in every firft weike in Febrewary : I fay then, be-
caufe I take that time to be the hardeft and moft
pinching times with pore people. And God re-
ward thofe that fliall doe this with out partialitie
and with honeftie and a good contience.

And if the faide maior and others of the faide

towne of Stafford, fliall prove fo necligent or dif-

honeft as not to imploy the rent by me given as

intended and expreft in this my wiU, (which God

H 3 forbid,)

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forbid,) then I give the faide rents and profits, of
the faide farme or land, to the towne and chiefe ma-
geftrats or governers of Ecles-hall, to be difpofed
by them in fuch maner as I have ordered the dif-
pofall of it, by the towne of Stafford, the faid
Farme or land being nere the towne of Ecles-hall.

And I give to my fon-in-law Dodtor Hawkins,
(whome I love as my owne fon) and to my dafter
his wife, and my fon Izaak to each of them a ring
with thefe words or motto ; — love my memory,
I. W. obiet = to the Lord B^ 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 faid rings be delivered within fortie dayes of
my deth. and that the price or valew of all the
faide rings Ihall be — 13* if a peice.

I give to Doftor Hawkins Dodo' Donns Ser-
mons; which I have hear'd preacht, and read with

much

_i^f^^^l_

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much content, to my fon Izaak I give Doc' Sibbs
his Soules Confli5i, and to my doughter his Brewfed
Reide ; defiring them to reade them fo, as to be
well aquanted with them, and I alfo give to her
all my bookes at Winchefter and Droxford, and
what ever in thofe two places are or I can call
mine : except a trunk of linen, which I gave to
my fon Izaak, but if he doe not live to make ufe
of it, then I give the fame to my grand-dafter,
Anne Hawkins : And I give my dafter Doc' Halls
Works which be now at Farnham.

To my fon Izaak I give all my books, (not yet
given) at Farnham Caftell and a delke of prints
and pickters ; alfo a cabinet nere my beds head, in
w* are fom littell things that he will valew, tho of
noe greate worth.

And my will and defyre is, that he will be kind
to his Ante Beacham and his ant Rofe Ken : by
alowing the firft about fiftie Ihilling a yeare in or
for bacon and cheife (not more), and paying 4^' a

yeare

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yeare toward the bordin of her fon's dyut to M'.
John Whitehead, for his ante Ken, I defyre him
to be kinde to her according to her neceffitie and
his owne abillitie. and I comend one of her children
to breide up (as I have faide I intend to doe) if he
fhall be able to doe it. as I know he will ; for,
they be good folke.

I give to M'. John Darbiftiire the Sermons of
M". Antony Faringdon, or of do' Sanderfon, which
my executor thinks fit. to my fervant, Thomas
Edghill I give five pownd in mony, and all my
clothes linen and woUen except one fute of clothes,
(which I give to M'. Holinfhed, and forty fhiling)
if the faide Thomas be my fervant at my deth, if
not my cloths only.

And I give my old friend M'. Richard Marriot
ten pownd in mony, to be paid him within . 3 .
months after my deth. and I defyre my fbn to fhew
kindenes to him if he fhall neide, and my Ton can
fpare it.

And

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And I doe hereby will and declare my fon Izaak
to be my fole execute' of this my laft will and
teftament ; and Do' Hawkins, to fee that he per-
forms it, which I doubt not but he will.

I defyre my buriall may be nere the place of
my deth ; and free from any oftentation or charg,
but privately : this I make to be my laft will, (to
which I only add the codicell for rings,) this i6.
dayof Auguftj 1683.

Witnes to this will. Izaak Walton.

The rings I give are

To my brother Jon Ken.

to my fitter his wife.

to my brother Doc' Ken.

to my filler Pye.

to M'. Francis Morley.

to S' George Vernon.

to his wife.

to his 3 dafters.

to M" Nelfon.

as on the other fide.

to my brother Beacham.
to my fitter his wife,
to the lady Anne How.
to M". KingDo'Philips wife,
to M'. Valantine Harecourt.
to W.. Elyza Johnfon.
to M". Mary Rogers,
to M". Elyza Milward.
to M". Doro. Wallop.

to

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to M'. Rich. Walton.

to M'. Palmer.

to M'. Taylor.

to M'. Tho. Garrard.

to the Lord Bp. of Sarum.

to M'. Rede his Servant.

to my Coz. Dorothy Kenrick.

to my Coz. Lewin.

to M'. Walter Higgs.

to M'. Cha Cotton.

to M'. Rich. Marryot.

to M'. Will. Milward of
Chrift-Church, Oxford.

to M'. John Darbeftiire.

to M' . Veudvill.

to M". Rock.

to M'. Peter White.

to M'. John Lloyde.

to my Coz Greinfells

— widow

i6 M". Dalbin muft not
be forgotten.

Note that feveral lines are blotted ^
out of this will for they are twice
repeted : And, that this will is now
figned & fealed, this twenty and
fourth day of Oftober 1683 in the
prefence of us —

Witnes, Abra. Markland.
Jos : Taylor,
Thomas Crawley.

- IzA A K Walton

CHISWICK press: — C. WHITTINGHAM, TOOKS COURT,
CHANCERY LANE.