NOTES. 391 



Page 32. Mlian. 



Claudius iElianus was a Roman sophist of Prreneste in Italy, in 

 the reign of Adrian, who originally taught Rhetoric at Rome ; 

 but taking a dislike to his profession, he became an author, and 

 wrote seventeen books De Animalium Natura, and fourteen of 

 various History, etc. in Greek. He died in his 60th year, 

 a. d. 140. The passage from the words " And there is a fish," 

 down to " most of mankind," was not inserted till the Third 

 Edition of The Complete Angler, 1664. 



Page 32. And first what Du Bartas says. 



See No. 7 in the preceding list, and the Fifth Day of the 

 First Week, line 195, p. 41, col. 1, of that volume : the verses 

 on the Cantharus and the Mullet, mentioned on pages 33 and 

 34, immediately follow the above at lines 201 and 205; and 

 Walton's reference to the custom of the Thracian women also 

 came from Du Bartas, beginning at line 209. The account of 

 the Sargus was taken by Du Bartas from Oppian's Halieutics, 

 lib. iv. 



Page 34. Pheer — prest. 



Pheer, or Fere. Saxon, Fern, Gefera, is a Mate, an Equal ; and 

 anciently, as in the present instance, a Husband or Wife. Prest 

 is the old orthography of the French Pret, Ready. Hawkins. 



Page 38. The Voyages of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto. 



A native of Monte Mor Ouelhoin Portugal, born about 1510, 

 and whose Travels, written by himself, have been very much 

 questioned as to their truth. For twenty-one years of his life 

 he was journeying chiefly in the East ; and during that time 

 he was five times shipwrecked, seventeen times sold, and thir- 

 teen times made a slave : he returned to Lisbon, Sept. 22nd, 

 1558. A translation of his Voyages will be found in the list of 

 Authorities, No. 33 ; and the passage alluded to by Walton is 

 in chap. 79, p. 319. The paragraph in which this traveller is 

 mentioned, did not appear until Walton's Second Edition. 



Page 38. He that reads Plutarch. 



See No. 35 in the foregoing list, p. 983, marginal letter D, in 

 that volume. Those passages from the words " And for the 

 " lawfulness," down to " great learning have been," did not 

 appear until Walton's Second Edition. 



Page 38. Angling is always taken in the best sense. 



See Cruden's Concordance under the titles Fishing and 

 Hunting. 



Page 39. Our learned Perkins — Doctor Whitaker — Doctor 

 Nowel. 



William Perkins was a learned Divine, and a pious and labo- 

 rious preacher ; and Dr. William Whitaker was an eminent 

 writer in the Romish controversy, and Regius Professor of 

 Divinity in the University of Cambridge. They both flourished 



