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    Waltoniana Inedited Remains in Verse and Prose of Izaak Walton
    Waltoniana Inedited Remains in Verse and Prose of Izaak Walton
    Waltoniana Inedited Remains in Verse and Prose of Izaak Walton
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    Waltoniana Inedited Remains in Verse and Prose of Izaak Walton

    By Richard Herne Shepherd and Izaak Walton

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    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Waltoniana Inedited Remains in Verse and Prose of Izaak Walton - Richard Herne Shepherd

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Waltonia, by Isaak Walton

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Waltonia Inedited Remains in Verse and Prose of Izaak Walton

      Author: Isaak Walton

      Posting Date: October 24, 2011 [EBook #9631] Release Date: January, 2006 First Posted: October 11, 2003

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WALTONIA ***

      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

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