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Walton in German. 



" Pise. Sir, I am 

 right glad to meet you, 

 and glad to have so 

 fair an entrance into 

 this dayes sport, and 

 glad to see so many 

 dogs, and more men 

 all in pursuit of the 

 Otter ; lets comple- 

 ment no longer, but 

 joyn unto them ; come, 

 honest Venator, lets 

 be gone, let us make 

 hast ; I long to be 

 doing : no reasonable 

 hedg or ditch shall hold 



" Pise. Ich biers 

 wahrhaftig sehr erfreut 

 Sie getroffen zu haben, 

 und einer so angeneh- 

 men Eroffnung der 

 Jagd beizuwohnen, 

 aber am meisten erfreut 

 es mich, so viele Man- 

 ner und Hunde in 

 Verfolgung der Otter 

 begriffen zu sehen. 

 Lassen sie uns keine 

 Zeit mit Reden ver- 

 schwenden, sondern 

 uns sofort der Jagd ans- 

 schlieszen. Kommen 

 Sie, inein ehrenwerther 

 Venator, beeilen wh- 

 ims, und machen wir, 

 dasz wir fortkommen r 

 ich sehne mich danach 

 thatig mitzuwirken ; 

 keine Hecke,keinTeich 

 soil uns aufhalten." 



In German, Piscator requires far longer 

 words and more of them to reply to 

 Venator, who has, moreover, knocked 

 all the spirit out of the thing by telling his 

 friend that the dogs have caught the otter, 

 whereas, of course, the sport had only just 

 commenced. 



Nearly all the verses in Walton are 

 translated, with Condon's catches and the 

 milkmaid's songs, all in a straightforward 

 and matter-of-fact, business-like manner. 



