194 Walton's Arbour. 



To make his work still more " compleat," 

 Walton added to his third and subsequent 

 editions an interesting " Short Discourse 

 by Way of Postscript, touching the Lawes 

 of Angling." Who the writer was is 

 unknown, but he was evidently some 

 learned legal angling friend of Walton, who 

 warmly acknowledges the advantage he 

 has had both from The Compleat Angler 

 and the friendship of its author. 



One last quotation from Walton's last 

 chapter : 



" Venator. Well Master, I thank you 

 for all your good directions, but for none 

 more than this last of thankfulness, which 

 I hope I shall never forget. And pray 

 let's now rest ourselves in this sweet 

 shady Arbour, which Nature herself has 

 woven with her own fine fingers ; 'tis such 

 a contexture of Woodbines, Sweetbrier, 

 Jessamine, and Mirtle ; and so interwoven, 

 as will secure us both from the Suns 

 violent heat; and from the approaching 

 shower, and being sate down I will requite 

 a part of your courtesies with a bottle of 

 Sack, Milk, Oranges, and Sugar; which all 

 put together, make a drink like Nectar." 



A full glass to you, Master ! And may 

 your memory ever be as sweet as "this 

 sweet shady Arbour " of " Woodbines, 

 Sweetbrier, Jessamine, and Mirtle " ! 



