242 IZAAK WALTON AND HIS FRIENDS 



So when my Mistress shall be seen 

 In form and beauty of her mind, 



By virtue first, then choice, a Queen, 

 Tell me, if she were not design'd 



Th' eclipse and glory of her kind ? 



(/) Laudatorum Carmina 



BY 



Dr James Duport 



Ad Yirum Optimum et Piscaiorem Peritissimum- Isaacum 

 Waltonum. 



Magister artis docte piscatoriae, 

 Waltone, salve ! magne dux arundinis, 

 Seu tu reducta valle solus ambulas, 

 Praeterfluentes interim observans aquas, 

 Seu forte puri stans in amnis margine, 

 Sive in tenaci gramine et ripa sedens, 

 Fallis perita squameum pecus manu ; 

 O te beatum ! qui procul negotiis, 

 Forique et urbis pulvere et strepitu carens, 

 Extraque turbam, ad lene manantes aquas 

 Vagos honesta fraude pisces decipis. 

 Dum caetera ergo paene gens mortalium 

 Aut retia invicem sibi et technas struunt, 

 Donis, ut hamo, aut divites captant senes, 

 Gregi natanttim tu interim nectis dolos. 

 Voracem inescas advenam hamo lucium, 

 Avidamv^ percam parvulo alberno capis, 



