144 IZAAK WALTON AND HIS FRIENDS 



Fellow in 1627, and later on Vice-Master. He was 

 Greek professor at Cambridge, and was said " to 

 have been the main instrument by which literature 

 was upheld in this university during the civil 

 disturbances of the seventeenth century." Isaac 

 Barrow was his pupil, and when, in 1654, Duport 

 resigned the Greek professorship at Cambridge he 

 recommended him for the post. Barrow did not 

 then succeed in obtaining it, although he did so at 

 the Restoration. He complained, however, that no 

 one attended his lectures. " 1 sit like an Attic owl," 

 he says, " driven out from the society of all other 

 birds." In 1662 Duport published a collection of 

 Latin poems. In 1664 he was made Dean of 

 Peterborough, and in 1668 Master of Magdalene 

 College. He was not allowed to preach in St 

 Paul's Cathedral a second time, because of a 

 sermon he had preached there as to the way that 

 Cathedral was profaned. He said : " Church aisles 

 were exchanged into shops, and churchyards into 

 markets." ^ 



Duport was buried in Peterborough Cathedral, 

 where there is a tablet erected to his memory. 

 He wrote verses in praise of Walton. They are 

 set out at the end of this book, and translated 



^St Paul's Cathedi-al was turned into a market, and the aisles, the 

 communion table and the altar served for the foulest purposes. 

 Churchyards seem to have been in old times used as maiket-places. 

 An Act of Parliament provided that neither fairs nor markets be 

 kept in churchyards, for the honour of the Church. 



