246 IZAAK WALTON AND HIS FRIENDS 



Laudatorum Carmina 



BY 



Dr James Duport 

 Ad Isaacum Waltonum, Virum et Piscatorem Optimum. 



IsAACE Macte hac arte piscatoria ; 

 Hac arte Petrus principi censum dedit ; 

 Hac arte princeps nee Petro multo prior, 

 Tranquillus ille, teste Tranquillo, pater 

 Patriae, solebat recreare se lubens 

 Augustus, hamo instructus ac arundine. 

 Tu nunc, amice, proximum clan es decus 

 Post Caesarem hami, gentis ac Halieuticae : 

 Euge O professor artis haud ingloriae, 

 Doctor cathedrae, perlegens piscariam ! 

 Nae tu magister, et ego discipulus tuus, 

 Nam candidatum et me ferunt arundinis, 

 Socium hac in arte nobilem nacti sumus. 

 Quid amplius, Waltone, nam dici potest ! 

 Ipse hamiota Dominus en orbis fuit ! 



Jaco. Dur, D.D. 



A Translation. 



To Isaac Walton, Best of Men and Anglers. 



Isaac, good luck to thee in the art of fishing! 

 By this art Peter gave tribute to Caesar. In this 

 art, not long before Peter, that great Tranquillus, 

 so Tranquillus (Suetonius) says Caesar Augustus 

 skilled in all knowledge of hook and line was 



