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 harfh-tun'd lines I here to thee commend. 



Thou being caufe it is now as it is : 



For hadil thou held thy tongue, by filence might 

 Thefe have beene buried in obliuious night. 



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



And difauow my title to the verfe : 



But being bad, I needes mult call them mine. 



No ill thing can be cloathed in thy verfe. 



Accept them then, and w^here 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. IVritten by S. P. London 

 Printed for Richard Hawkins, dwelling in Chancery-Lane, neere 

 Serieants Inne, 1619. Printed at the end of a volume entitled, 

 Alciliay Philoparthens louing Folly, &c., which, from its being 



difcovered 



