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biographies in the language, gives us such 

 scanty references to his own life ; one would 

 have liked to have read descriptions from his 

 own pen of his journeys to Derbyshire to 

 enjoy the hearty hospitality of his friend ; of 

 his fishing there in the Dove and Manifold, 

 of his visits to his property at Stafford during 

 the Civil War, and of his life at Winchester ; 

 for the little we do know of him makes us wish 

 to know more." 



" The Compleat Angler " having in twenty-three 

 years gone through four editions, Walton in the 

 year 1686, when he was in his eighty-third year, 

 was preparing a fifth, with additions, for the press ; 

 when Mr. Cotton wrote his second part. He had 

 submitted the manuscript to Walton for his 

 perusal, who returned it with his approval and a 

 few marginal strictures ; in that year they were 

 published together. Mr. Cotton's book had the 

 title, " The Complete Angler, being instructions 

 how to angle for a trout or a grey ling in a clear 

 stream, Part II.," and it has ever since been 

 received as a second part of Walton's book. 



In his dedication to Philip Earl of Chesterfield 

 of the third edition of the " Reliquiae Wottonianre," 



