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on various subjects, and died in 1602, aged 78. Hawkins, Casaubon quotes him at p. 252 of his book, No. 10 of the foregoing list. The paragraph from which the above line is quoted, did not appear as it now stands, until the Fifth Edition of Walton. The Hares changing sexes is mentioned by Topsell, vide No. 41, p. 266. P ge 128. Learned Doctor Hakewill.

Dr. George Hakewill was born at Exeter in 1579, and was Rector of Exeter College, Oxford; he died at his living of Heanton in Devonshire, in April 1649. His book will be found at No. 21, of the list, and the contents of the paragraph in the text, which did not appear until the Second Edition of Walton, are from p. 434 of that volume. In Walton's First Edition, this part falls in Chap. V. which is entitled, "Some direction to fish for the Trout by night; and a question whether fish hear? and lastly, some "directions how to fish for the Umber or Grayling." The titles of the other Chapters in the First Edition, do not greatly differ from those in the present.

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Page 131. Salvian takes him, &c.

Hippolito Salviani, an Italian Physician, of the sixteenth century; he wrote a treatise De Piscibus cum eorum figuris; and died at Rome in 1572, aged 59. Hawkins. The passage in the text is in Chap. VI. p. 81, of No. 38 in the preceding list. All references to Gesner concerning fish, will be found in the 4th vol. of No. 19. Page 136. Michael Drayton.

An excellent Poet, born in Warwickshire, in 1563. Among his works, which are very numerous, is the Poly-Olbion, a chorographical description of the rivers, mountains, forests, castles, &c. in this island. Although the poem has great merit, it is rendered much more valuable by the learned notes of John Selden. The author died in 1631, and lies buried with the Poets in Westminster Abbey. Hawkins. The passage referred to is at p. 88 of No. 14 of the foregoing list; and in Camden, it occurs at page 654. This extract is not in the First Edition of Walton.

Page 143. Gesner mentions a Pike.

This story is told by Dr. Hakewill in his Apology, &c. No. 21 of the preceding list, Lib. ii. Chap. 8, Sect. 2, p. 136, of that volume. Walton subsequently mentions several instances of the voracity of the Pike; but, as a proof that other fish besides will swallow hard substances, Fuller, in his History of the Worthies of England, Lond. 1662. fol. Northumberland, p. 310, relates from a book entitled "Vox Piscis," printed in 1626, p. 13, that a Mr. Anderson, who was afterwards Knighted, a Townsman and Merchant of Newcastle, and who was Mayor of that place in 1599, was conversing on the bridge there, and suddenly let his Seal-ring fall into the river Tyne. As Mayor, he was entitled to the first Salmon caught in the season, and upon opening the one that was thus pre

sented to him, his own ring was discovered in it's stomach. The annexed cut is copied from an impression of that Seal, presented to this work by J. G. Children, Esq. of the British Museum.

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Page 147. the reader of Dubravius.

Janus Dubravius Scala, Bishop of Olmutz in Moravia, in the sixteenth century, was born at Pilsen in Bohemia, was sent Ambassador into Sicily, and made President of the Chamber which tried the Rebels of Smalcald. His book alluded to by Walton, is No. 15 in the foregoing list, the passage is in the 6th Chap. of Book i., and a translation of it was published in 4to. 1599, by George Churchey, Fellow of Lincoln's Inn. He is said to have died in 1559. Hawkins. The extract from Dubravius is not in Walton's First Edition.

Page 152. Cardanus undertakes.

Jerome Cardan, an Italian Physician, Naturalist, and Astrologer, born at Pavia, Sept. 24, 1501, well known by the many works he has published: he died at Rome on Sept. 21, 1576. It is said, that he had foretold the day of his death; and that, when it approached, he suffered himself to die of bunger to preserve his reputation. He had been in England, and wrote a character of our Edward VI. Hawkins.

Page 158. Sir Richard Baker, in whose Chronicle, &c.

Vide No. 5, p. 428, marginal letter E. It is probable that this rhyme, with all it's variations, is historically erroneous. Not in Walton's First Edition.

Page 159. It is said by Jovius.

Paulus Jovius, an Italian Historian, of very doubtful authority, was born at Como in 1483. He wrote a small tract De Romanis Piscibus, and he died at Florence in 1552. Hawkins.

Page 184. made by Doctor Donne.

John Donne was born in London about the year 1573, and was educated at Oxford and Cambridge, whence he removed to Lincoln's Inn. He afterwards became Secretary to Lord Ellesmere, and privately addressed and married a near relation of his Lady's; which was so highly resented by Sir George Moor, his wife's father, that Donne was dismissed from his situation, and involved in the greatest poverty and distress. About 1614, he was persuaded

to enter into holy orders, and he at length obtained the Deanery of St. Paul's; but his misfortunes induced a lingering consumption, of which he died in 1631. Walton. Dr. Donne's Poems appear at No. 13 of the preceding list, and at p. 190 of that volume, are the verses quoted in the text, which are sometimes entitled "the "Bait." The word sleave on page 186, is from the Icelandic Slefa, fibres of silk, and signifies to untwist ravelled silk. Todd. Page 188. Venerable Bede.

The most universal Scholar of his time: he was born at Durham about the year 671, and bred under St. John of Beverly. It is said that Pope Sergius I. invited him to Rome, though others say that he never quitted his cell. He was a man of great virtue, and remarkable for a sweet and engaging disposition; he died in 734, and lies buried at Durham. Matthias de L'Obel, who is mentioned in the next page, was an eminent Physician and Botanist of the 16th century, and was a native of L'Isle in Flanders. He was a disciple of Rondeletius; and was invited to London by King James I. He died in 1616. The book from which the text is quoted, is No. 31 in the foregoing list. John Gerard, who is also cited with L'Obel, was a Surgeon in London, and one of the most celebrated of English Botanists; he was born at Namptwich in Cheshire, in 1545. His Herbal, mentioned in the text, is No. 17 in the list of Authorities, and the passage referred to is in Lib. 3, p. 1587, chap. 171; which is entitled "Of the Goose tree, Bar"nacle tree, or the Tree bearing Geese:" of this there is a curious wood-cut. Hawkins. The passages from Lord Bacon, quoted on p. 189, are at p. 71, Nos. 46, 44, of his History, &c.; those from Dr. Hakewill, are in Lib. iv. Sect. 6, pp. 433, 434, of his Apology. The reference to Camden on page 196, will be found on page 666 of his Britannia.

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Page 198. Gesner and Gasius declare, &c.

Antonio Gazius of Padua, the Author of the "Coronæ Florida Medicina," which he published at Venice in 1491, in folio, at the age of 28. He died in 1530. Moreri. His name does not appear in Walton's First Edition.

Page 201. Doctor Sheldon.

Dr. Gilbert Sheldon, Warden of All-Soul's College, Chaplain to King Charles I., and after the Restoration, Archbishop of Canterbury. He was born July 19, 1598, at Stanton in Staffordshire; he founded the Theatre at Oxford; died in 1677, and lies buried under a stately monument at Croydon in Surrey. Hawkins. This passage is not in Walton's First Edition, and the Second reads, "Doctor Sh."

Page 212. Of which Diodorus speaks.

Diodorus, surnamed Siculus, because his birth-place was Argyra in Sicily, was an excellent Historian, who flourished about 44 years

B. C. Of his History of Egypt, Persia, Syria, &c. there are only 15 books remaining, but it originally consisted of 40; it was the work of 30 years, although the greatest part of it is a compilation. Lempriere. The passage mentioned in the text is in Book V. Ch. I. Page 213. Phineas Fletcher.

The son of Giles Fletcher, LL. D., and Ambassador from Queen Elizabeth to the Duke of Muscovy. He is said to have been born about 1584, and in 1600 he became a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. In 1633 he was known as the author of a fine allegorical poem, entitled, "The Purple Island," which was printed at Cambridge, with others of his works. He died about 1650. Hawkins.

Page 214. You must sing a part of it.

These verses were composed for two voices, a Treble and a Bass, by the very celebrated Henry Lawes, most probably at Walton's request, and they are to be found at p. 62, in a volume entitled, "Select Ayres and Dialogues for One, Two, and Three Voyces; to "the Theorbo-Lvte, and Basse-Viol. Composed by John Wilson "and Charles Coleman, Doctors in Music, Henry Lawes," &c. Lond. 1659. fol. It occurs in the First Edition of Walton. The verses in praise of Music are also in the First Edition of Walton, and are taken from the end of the same work where they are signed W. D., Knight, meaning perhaps, Sir William Davenant. Hawkins. Page 224. like the Rosicrucians.

The title of the Rosycrucians, or the Brothers of the Rosy-Cross, was first assumed by a sect of Hermetic Philosophers in Germany, about the commencement of the fourteenth century. They professed to have a knowledge of all the Occult Sciences, as the making of gold, the prolongation of human life, the restoration of youth, from which they were also called Immortales, and the formation of the Philosopher's Stone; but all these secrets they were bound by a solemn oath to reveal only to the members of their own fraternity, and it is to this custom, in particular, that Walton alludes. Their founder was a German gentleman, named Christian Crux, who had travelled to Palestine, where, falling sick, he was cured by Arabian Physicians, who, he asserted, revealed to him their mysterious Arts. He died in 1484; and the name of his Society was composed of the word Ros, Dew, and his own name, Crux a Cross, the chemical character for light. Mosheim. Gassendi. Renaudot. Brucker. Page ibid. either to Mr. Margrave.

There is printed upon the reverse of the last leaf of Cotton's Second Part to the Complete Angler, Edit. 1676, the following memorandum concerning this person. "Courteous Reader. You may be pleas'd to take notice, that at the Sign of the Three Trouts in St. Paul's Church-Yard, on the North side, you may be fitted with all sorts of the best Fishing Tackle, by John Margrave."

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