NOTES. 401 



The reference to Camden on page 196, will be found on page 

 666 of his Britannia. 



Page 198. Gasius. 



Antonio Gazius of Padua, the Author of the " Corona Flo- 

 " rida Medicinae," which he published at Venice in 149), in 

 folio, at the age of 28. He died in 1530. His name does not 

 appear in Walton's First Edition. 



Page 201. Doctor Sheldon. 



Dr. Gilbert Sheldon, Warden of All-Souls College, Chaplain 

 to King Charles I., and, after the Restoration, Archbishop of 

 Canterbury. He was born July 19th, 1598, at Stanton in Staf- 

 fordshire; he founded the Theatre at Oxford; died in 1677, 

 and lies buried under a stately monument at Croydon in Surrey. 

 Hawkins. This passage is not in Walton's First Edition, and the 

 Second reads, " Doctor Sh." 



Page 212. Of which DioJorus speaks. 



Diodorus, surnamed Siculus, because his birth-place was 

 Argyra in Sicily, was an excellent Historian, who flourished 

 about 44 years b. c. Of his History of Egypt, Persia, Syria, 

 etc. there are only fifteen books remaining, but it originally 

 consisted of forty ; it was the work of thirty years, although 

 the greatest part of it is a compilation. The passage men- 

 tioned in the text is in book v. ch. i. 



Page 213. Phineas Fletcher. 



The son of Giles Fletcher, LL. D., and Ambassador from 

 Queen Elizabeth to the Duke of Muscovy. He is said to have 

 been born about 1584, and in 1600 he became Fellow of King's 

 College, Cambridge. In 1633 he was known as the author of a 

 fine allegorical poem, entitled "The Purple Island," which was 

 printed at Cambridge, with others of his works. He died 

 about 1650. Hawkins. 



Page 214. You must siirj' n pari of it. 



These verses were composed for two voices, a Treble and a 

 Bass, by the very celebrated Henry Lawes, most probably at 

 Walton's request, and they are to be found at p. 62 of a 

 volume entitled, " Select Ayres and Dialogues for One, Two, 

 "and Three Voyces; to the Theorbo-Lvte, and Basse-Viol. 

 " Composed by John Wilson and Charles Coleman, Doctors in 

 " Music, Henry Lawes," etc. Lond. 1659. fol. It occurs in the 

 First Edition of Walton. The verses in praise of Music are 

 also in the First Edition of Walton, and are taken from the end 

 of the same book of songs, where they are signed W. IX, Knight, 

 j perhaps Sir William Davenant. //"" 



An harmonised version of Lawcs's composition is given on 

 the following pages. 



