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man is like to do it very well, because I think he will do it affectionately, 

 so that if Mr Fulraan makes his queries concerning that part of his life 

 spent in Oxford, he will have many, and good, I mean true informations 

 from Mr Faringdon, till he came thither, and by me and my means since 

 he came to Eton. 



"This I write that you may inform Mr Fulman of it, and I pray let him 

 know I will not yet give over my queries ; and let him know that I hope 

 to meet him and the Parliament in health and in London in October, and 

 then and there deliver up my collections to him. In the meantime I wish 

 him and you health ; and pray let him know it either by your writing to 

 him, or sending him this of mine. God keep us all in His favour, his and 

 your friend to serve you, IZAAK WALTON. 8 



' Winchester, 24th August 1673." 



Walton's memoranda respecting Hales, which will be found in 

 the notes, are dated on the 28th of October following, when, it 

 may be inferred from his letter, he was in London. Some of the 

 facts there stated are new and curious, especially the account of 

 the portrait of Hales, painted after his death by Anne Lady Howe, 

 who was the sister of Henry King, Bishop of Chichester, and 

 married, first, John Button, of Sherborne, Esq., and secondly, Sir 

 Richard Howe, Bart. Walton describes her as " a most generous 

 and ingenious lady ; " he mentions her in his will ; and she was 

 probably one of his oldest friends. 



The tenth edition of Herbert's poem entitled " The Temple/' 

 of which Walton stated in 1670 that more than twenty thousand 

 copies had been sold, 9 was published in 1674 ; and his " Life of 

 Herbert" was then, for the first time, prefixed to it. In the 

 following year, the Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, and Herbert, 

 were reprinted, l upon which occasion Charies_,ottpn wrote a 

 poem dated on the I7th of January i672-3~7addresseo rc To my 

 old and most worthy friend, Mr Izaak Walton, on his Life of Dr 

 Donne, &c.," which contains so many allusions to Walton, and is 

 so pleasing a composition, that it could not, with propriety, be 

 either omitted or abridged. 



" TO MY OLD AND MOST WORTHY FRIEND MR IZAAK WALTON, ON HIS LlFK OF 



DR DONNE, &c. 



When, to a nation's loss, the virtuous die, 

 There's justly due, from every hand and eye, 

 That can or write, or weep, an elegy. 



8 Fulman's MSS. vol. xii. in Corpus Christ! College, Oxford. 



9 Walton's Lives, ed. Zouch ii. 119. 



1 The edition of 1675 is called, in the tide-page, " the Fourth ;" but it was only the 

 second collected edition of the Lives; the intermediate editions being respectively pre- 

 fixed to Donne's Sermons, Reliquiae Wottonianae, Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity, and 

 Herbert's Temple. 



