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wont to find recreation. Thou now, oh my friend, 

 art after Csesar the greatest glory of the hook 

 and fishing tribe. Well done ! professor of no 

 ignoble art, learned doctor deeply steeped in fish- 

 market-lore ! Verily thou master and I thy 

 disciple we two were born, for they say that I too 

 am a novice of the rod, comrades in this noble 

 art. What more, Walton, remains to be said? 

 Our Lord Himself was on earth a Fisher ! 



James DuroRT, D.D. 



Note. — In Notes and Queries^ 1st S. VIII., p. 193, some 

 other lines to Walton, by Duport, are to be found. 



{g) Laudatorum Carmina 



Hbnky Bayley, Aetium Magistee 



Clarissimo amicissimoque fratri, Domino Isaaco Walton, 

 artis piscatorice peritissimo. 



Unicos est medicus reliquorum piscis, et istis, 



Fas quibus est medicum tangere, certa salus 

 Hie typus est salvatoris mirandus Jesu, 



Lit era mysterium quaelibet hujus habet. 

 Hunc cupio, hunc cupias (bone frater arun- 

 dinis) ix'^vv: 



Solveret hie pro me debita, teque Deo. 

 Piscis is est, et piscator, mihi credito, qualem 



Vel piscatorem piscis amare velit. 



