io THOMAS KEN AND IZAAK WALTON 



Sandys, both of them former pupils of Hooker, on 

 one occasion went to visit him 



" Where they found him with a book in his 

 hand ; it was the ' Odes of Horace,' he being 

 then, like humble and innocent Abel, tending 

 his small allotment of sheep in a common 

 field, which he told his pupils he was forced to 

 do then, for that his servant was gone home to 

 dine and assist his wife to do some necessary 

 household business ... his two pupils attended 

 him to his house . . . but his quiet company 

 was presently denied them : for Richard was 

 called to rock the cradle. At their parting 

 from him Mr. Cranmer said, ' Good Tutor . . . 

 I am sorry that your wife proves not a more 

 comfortable companion.' To whom the good 

 man replied, ' My dear George, if Saints have 

 usually a double share in the miseries of this 

 life, I, that am none, ought not to repine at 

 what my wise Creator hath appointed me ; but 

 labour, as indeed I do daily, to submit mine to 

 his will, and possess my soul in patience and 

 peace.' "(Walton's " Life of Hooker.") 



In the " Compleat Angler " there are two poems 

 addressed to Izaak Walton by John Floud, M.A., 



