400 NOTES. 



Vide No. 5, p. 428, marginal letter E. It is probable that 

 this rhyme, with all it's variations, is historically erroneous. 

 Not in Walton's First Edition. 



Page 159. It is said by Jovius. 



Paulus Jovius, an Italian Historian, of very doubtful autho- 

 rity, was born at Como in 1483. He wrote a small tract De 

 Romanis Piscibus, and he died at Florence in 1552. Hawkins. 



Page 184. Made by Doctor Donne. 



John Donne was born in London about the year 1573, and 

 was educated at Oxford and Cambridge, whence he removed to 

 Lincoln's Inn. He afterwards became secretary to Lord Elles- 

 mere, and privately addressed and married a near relation of 

 his lady's ; which was so highly resented by Sir George Moor, 

 his wife's father, that Donne was dismissed from his situation, 

 and involved in the greatest poverty and distress. About 1G14, 

 he was persuaded to enter into holy orders, and he at length 

 obtained the Deanery of St. Paul's ; but his misfortunes had 

 induced a lingering consumption, of which he died in lf)31. 

 Walton. Dr. Donne's Poems appear at No. 13 of the preced- 

 ing list, and at p. 190 of that volume, are the verses quoted in 

 the text, which are sometimes entitled " the Bait." The word 

 sleave on page 186, is from the Icelandic Slefa, fibres of silk, 

 and signifies to untwist ravelled silk. 



Page 188. Venerable Bede. 



The most universal scholar of his time : he was born at 

 Durham about the year 671, and bred under St. John of 

 Beverly. It is said that Pope Sergius I. invited him to Rome, 

 though others say that he never quitted his cell. He was a man 

 of great virtue, and remarkable for a sweet and engaging dis- 

 position ; he died in 734, and lies buried at Durham. The 

 passage referred to in the text is in his Ecclesiastical History 

 of the English nation, lib. iv. cap. 19. Matthias de L'Obel, 

 who is mentioned in the next page, was an eminent phy- 

 sician and botanist of the 16th century, and was a native 

 of L'Isle in Flanders. He was a disciple of Rondeletius; and 

 was invited to London by King James I. He died in 1616. 

 The book from which the text is quoted, is No. 31 in the fore- 

 going list. John Gerard, who is also cited with L'Obel, was a 

 surgeon in London, and one of the most celebrated of English 

 botanists; he was born at Namptwich in Cheshire, in 1545. 

 His Herbal, mentioned in the text, is No. 17 in the list of 

 Authorities, and the passage referred to is in lib. 3, p. 1587, 

 chap. 171; which is entitled " Of the Goose tree, Barnacle tree, 

 " or theTree bearing Geese:" of this there is a curious wood-cut. 

 Hawkins. The passages from Lord Bacon, quoted on p. 189, 

 are at p. 71, Nos. 46, 44, of his History, &c. ; those from Dr. 

 Hakewill, are in lib. iv. sect. 6, pp. 433, 434, of his Apology. 



