i8o THOMAS KEN AND IZAAK WALTON 



1678. " Life of Robert Sanderson, Bishop of 

 Lincoln." 



1680. "Walton and Ben Jonson." Walton's letter 

 from the Ashmolean Museum, written in 

 his eighty-seventh year. It is a reply to a 

 request from Aubrey for some information, 

 " ffor your fifriends q"^ this. I only knew 

 Ben Jonson, but my Lord of Winton 

 knew him well." The letter is a very 

 long one and very interesting, but said to 

 be unreliable as to facts stated. 



1683. " Thealma and Clearchus," written long since 

 by John Chalkhill, an acquaintance and 

 friend of Edmund Spencer. It was printed 

 at Walton's instigation, and his Preface to 

 it appropriately closes the account of his 

 writings, 



"Thealma and Clearchus"^ — Walton's 

 Preface 



" The Reader will find in this Book what the 

 Title declares, a Pastoral History, in smooth 



1 The poem of " Thealma and Clearchus " was left in an 

 nufinished state ; it terminates abruptly with the half line — 



" Thealma lives . . " 



upon which Walton adds, " And here the author dy'd, and 

 I hope the reader will be sorry.' 



