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a Life written with more advantage to the 

 Subject, or more reputation to the Writer, 

 than that of Dr. Donne's." 



This testimony from an experience of 

 " more than forty years " to the worth of 

 Walton is written by Bishop King, and 

 prefixed to the first collected edition of 

 Walton's Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, 

 and Herbert, published in 1670 by 

 Richard Harriot, and dedicated to Dr. 

 George Morley, Bishop of Winchester. 

 In the course of this dedication, Walton 

 says that his Lives of Herbert and Donne 

 were written under Bishop Morley's roof, 

 and that if it has been possible for him 

 to make his Lives "passable in an 

 eloquent and captious age, it is by the 

 advantage of forty years friendship, and 

 thereby the hearing of and discoursing 

 with your Lordship." 



This, then, is another forty years' testi- 

 mony. 



In his "Epistle to the Reader" published 

 with this 1670 edition of the Lives, Walton 

 tells us that Doctor Gilbert Sheldon, 

 afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, had 

 "twice injoyn'd " him to write the Life of 

 Hooker. Dr. Sheldon was, he tells us in 

 his Angler, a very skilful angler for barbel. 



Sir William Dugdale, in his Short View 

 .of the Late Troubles in England^ refers to 



