WALTONIANA. 



And yet, now, after almoft twenty yeares, when 

 though the memory of D^ Donne himfelf, muft 

 not, cannot die, fo long as men fpeak Englifh ; yet 

 when I thought Time had made this relation of him 

 fo like rny felf, as to become ufdefs 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 

 firfl had and needed, and in an Age too, in which 

 Truth & Innocence have not beene able to defend 

 themfelves from worfe then fevere cenfures. 

 ; This I forefaw, and Nature teaching me felfe- 

 prefervation, and my long experience of your 

 abiUties affuring me that in you it may in found \^ 

 to you. Sir, do I make mine addrefTes for an um- 

 brage and protedion : and I make it with fo much 

 humble boldneffe, as to fay 'twere degenerous in 

 you not to afford it. 



* Sic: probably a mifprint for ^^be found ?"-7-Ed. 



For, 



