Dray ton and Ben Jomon. 241 



JAMES DUPORT, D.D., [Greek Professor 

 at Cambridge, evidently an angler, 

 as in another Ode to Walton he 

 says,] 



" Nee tu Magister, et ego discipulus tuus, 

 (Nam candidatum & me ferunt arundinis)." 



I have given some other charming lines 

 by Duport, written in a book he gave to 

 Walton, among the " Waltoniana " of the 

 " Lea and Dove " edition. 



Sir Richard Baker, author of The Chro- 

 nicle of the Kings of England, who refers 

 to Dr. Donne and Sir Henry Wotton as 

 " two of mine own old acquaintance," says, 

 "The Trojan horse was not fuller of 

 heroic Grecians, than King James's reign 

 was full of men excellent in all kinds of 

 learning." 



From the brief extracts I have given, 

 we see that Walton Was the esteemed 

 friend of some of the best of these con- 

 temporaries. He speaks of Drayton as 

 his " honest old friend." He knew Ben 

 Jonson, and at the end of some parti- 

 culars about him which he gave Aubrey 

 he says, " So much for brave Ben." 



DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON AND WALTON. 



It is interesting and significant of 

 Walton's worth as a writer, that the literary 

 giant of the next century, Johnson, should 



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