96 IZAAK WALTON AND HIS FRIENDS 



that world wherein dwelleth righteousness ; and 

 I long for it." 



He was taken very ill, and in the beginning 

 of December 1639, "his better part, that part of 

 Sir Henry Wotton which could not die, put off 

 mortality with as much content and cheerfulness 

 as human frailty is capable of, being then in great 

 tranquillity of mind, and in perfect peace with 

 God and man." He died at Eton, and was buried 

 in the College Chapel in accordance with the 

 directions contained in his will in that behalf 

 should he end his " transitory days at or near " Eton. 



By his will he bequeathed to the Library of 

 Eton College all his manuscripts not before dis- 

 posed of, and to each of the Fellows a plain ring 

 of gold, enamelled black, all save the verge, with 

 this motto within, "Amor unit omnia." 



Amongst some of the books given or be- 

 queathed to Eton College by Wotton are a 

 Xenoplwn, an Ovid, known as the Codex Lango- 

 hardicus, a fifteenth-century Dante, and a 

 fourteenth- century Life of St Francis, by 

 Bartholomew of Pisa. 



