CHAPTER XV 



SELECTIONS FROM THE POETICAL WORKS OF WALTON, 

 COTTON, DONNE, HERBERT, WOTTON AND DUPORT 



In this chapter the reader will find selections from 

 the poetry of Walton, Cotton, Donne, Wotton and 

 Herbert, and the Latin verses by Duport, which 

 are to be found in many editions of The Complete 

 Angler. In supplementing these verses by a 

 translation into English, I have taken a course the 

 utility of which will, I hope, be accepted as 

 sufficient apology for its novelty. 



(a) SOME OF WALTON'S VERSES, ETC. 

 An Elegie Upon Dr Donne 



(1633). 



Our Donne is dead ; England should mourne, may 



say 

 We had a man where language chose to stay 

 And shew her gracefull power. I would not praise 

 That and his vast wit (which in these vaine dayes 

 Make many proud) but, as they serv'd to unlock 



That Cabinet, his minde : where such a stock 

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