COMPLETE ANGLER. 285 



1652. March 22. Alexander Roe, infant, buryed, churchyard ; out of 

 he Friers. 



1653. Nov. 17. Barbara, wife of Edward Roe, buryed. 



1654. May 26. Edward Roe was buryed, churchyard ; coffined, out of 

 he Friars. 



P. 163. It was then usual to exhibit curiosities of any kind at coffee- 

 louses, and the custom is alluded to in the Spectator. 



P. 1 66. By an error of the press, the note which refers to the Guiniad 

 s made to apply to the Barbel. 



1'. 177. Cowper has beautifully expressed the same idea in the follow- 

 ng lines : 



He looks abroad into the varied field 

 Of nature, and though poor perhaps compared 

 With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, 

 Calls the delightful scenery all his own. 

 His are the mountains and the valleys his, 

 And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy 

 With a propriety that none can feel, 

 But who, witli filial confidence inspired, 

 C.m lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, 

 And smiling say, " My Father made them all ! " 

 Are they not his by a peculiar riht, 

 And by an emphasis of interest his, 

 Whose eye they fill with tears of holy joy, 

 Whose heart with praise, and whose exalted mind 

 With worthy thoughts of that unwearied love 

 That plann'd, and built, and still upholds a world 

 So clothed with beauty for rebellious man ? * 



THE TASK. Book I'. 



P. 179. It was intended to insert a poem, preserved in a MS. in the 

 Library of the Royal Society, which is attributed to Walton, and is sup- 

 posed to be unpublished, entitled " On a Lady fishing with an Angle," 

 :ommencing 



" See where the fair Clorinda sits, and seeing." 



On applying to the librarian of the Royal Society, with a letter from one 

 of the Fellows, it appeared, however, that an extract was not allowed to 

 be made from any manuscript belonging to that learned body, without a 

 special order of the Council. As the Council would not meet for some 

 weeks, it was not thought worth while to delay the publication of this 

 ivork until all the necessary forms could be observed. Any remarks on 

 Lhe absurdity of a regulation which tends to render the library of a society, 

 incorporated for the advancement of knowledge, comparatively useless, 

 even to its own Fellows, must be unnecessary ; but the hope may be 

 expressed that it will not much longer be allowed to cast discredit on a 

 body which claims the first place among the learned associations of 

 Europe. 



It would seem from the following verses, which were written by the 

 witty Lord Rochester, that King Charles the Second was an angler. " 

 They are printed in a collection of Poems on Affairs of State, 8vo, 1703, 

 vol. i. Continuation, p. 43 : 



WINDSOR BY THE LORD R R. 



Methinks I see our mighty Monarch tand, 

 His pliant angle trembling in his hand ; 



