Waltoniana

Waltoniana (Inedited Remains in
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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