CHAPTER X 



Walton's death 



" Arcessitus ab Angelis " 



" Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history." 



" Wouldst see December smile? 

 Wouldst see nests of new roses grow 

 In a bed of reverend snow ? " 



Richard Crashaw. 



" In the midst of Death we are in Life." ^ 



" He was a man among the few 

 Sincere on virtue's side ; 

 And all his strength from Scripture drew, 

 To hourly use applied. 



His joys be mine each reader cries, 



When my last hour arrives ; 

 They shall be yours, my verse replies. 



Such only be your lives." 



W. Cooper. 



We know no particulars about Walton's death : 

 we only know that he died on the 15th of 

 December 1683, at the time of the great frost 



1 The Eagle Lectern in Lambeth Palace Chapel beais this luotto 

 (see Archbishop Benson's Life, by his son, Vol. II., p. 394.) 



