NOTE S. 387 



of catching the King of Egypt, who is represented under the 

 figure of the crocodile, lying in the midst of his rivers ; and the 

 word occurs again in Ezek. xxxviii. 4. The Prophet Habbakuk 

 in chap. i. 14-17, has an inference to hooks, but the word is 

 commonly translated Angle. Hawkins. 



Page 24. In ancient times a debate has arisen, etc. 



This was a favourite subject with the old theological writers 

 of Italy ; and the chief of their arguments with many refer- 

 ences, are considered in " A collection of several Tracts of the 

 Right Honourable Edward, Earl of Clarendon, Lond. 1727, fol. 

 pp. 167-205. This tract was most probably written at Mont- 

 pellier in March 1670. Hawkins. Walton however might 

 probably allude to a rare piece by Evelyn, which he wrote in 

 answer to Sir George Mackenzie, entitled " PublicEmployment, 

 and an Active Life preferred to Solitude." Lond. 1667. 12mo. 



Page 26. The learned Peter Du Moulin. 



This very eminent writer in the Romish controversy was the 

 eldest son of Peter Du Moulin, who was also celebrated in the 

 same cause. He was Chaplain to King Charles II. of England, 

 and a Prebendary of the Cathedral of Canterbury, in which 

 city he died in 1684, at the age of 84. The passage alluded to 

 by Walton, will be found in No. 30 of the preceding list, at 

 sign, a 3 in the Preface to the Reader. 



Page 26. And an ingenious Spaniard says. 



This passage is commonly supposed to allude to John Val- 

 desso, a Spanish soldier in the service of the Emperor Charles 

 V. ; of whom in his old age, he obtained leave to retire, by 

 urging the aphorism " It is fit that between the employment of 

 " life and the day of death, some space should intervene :" 

 reflection on this is thought to have been the chief reason of 

 that Sovereign's abdication, of which Walton gives a particular 

 narrative in his Life of Mr. George Herbert. Valdesso secluded 

 himself in the city of Naples, and there wrote, in the Castilian 

 tongue, " The Hundred and Ten Considerations of Signor 

 Valdesso," which were translated into Italian by Caelius Se- 

 cundus Curio, of Basil, and thence into English by the cele- 

 brated Nicholas Farrar, Jun. of Little Gidding, and published 

 in 4to. at Oxford in 1638. From this work the passage in the 

 text is said to have been taken, but it does not appear there. 

 Hawkins. 



Page 27. One of no less credit than Aristotle. 



In the margin of the First Edition of Walton is inserted at 

 this place, " In his Wonders of Nature. This is confirmed by 

 Ennius, and Solon in his Holy History." The circumstances 

 mentioned by Camden will be found in his Britannia, see No. 8 

 in the preceding list, at pages 558, and 762. The Sabbatical 



