io8 IZAAK WALTON AND HIS FRIENDS 



EPITAPH TO HOOKER 



BY 



Sir William Cooper 



Though nothing can be spoke worthy his fame 



Or the remembrance of that precious name, 



Judicious ^ H ooker : though this cost be spent 



On him, that hath a lasting monument 



In his own books ; yet ought we to express, 



If not his worth yet our respectfulness. 



Church ceremonies he maintained ; then why 



Without all ceremony should he die % 



Was it because his life and death should be 



Both equal patterns of humility % 



Or that perhaps this only glorious one - 



Was above all, to ask, why had he none ? 



Yet he that lay so long obscurely low, 



Doth now preferred to greater honours go. 



Ambitious men, learn hence to be more wise, 



Humility is the true way to rise : 



And God in me this lesson did inspire. 



To bid this humble man, Friend, sit up higher. 



(e) ROBERT SANDERSON 



(1587-1663) 



"The Lord will beautify the meek with salvation." 



Psalm cxlix. 4. 



Sanderson was the youngest son of Robert 

 Sanderson, of Gilthwaite Hall, Yorkshire. The 

 place of his birth is uncertain. Walton says he 

 was born at Rotherham, in the county of York, 



1 The word "judicious," invariably applied to Hooker, was taken 

 from this epitaph. 



