LIFE OP WALTON. 25 



made a visit to the famous Doctor Jewel, then bishop 

 of Salisbury, his good friend and patron : An account 

 of the bishop's reception of him, and behaviour at his 

 departure as it contains a lively picture of his simpli- 

 city and goodness, and of the plain manners of those 

 times is s;i ven in the note*. 



The Life of Mr. George Herbert, as it stands the 

 fourth and last in the volume wherein that and the 

 three former are collected, seems to have been writtea 

 the next after Hooker's: it was first published in duo- 

 decimo, 1670. Walton professes himself to have been 

 a stranger as to the person of Herbert t : and though he 

 assures us his life of him was a free-will offering J, it 

 abounds with curious information^ and is no way infe- 

 rior to any of the former. 



Two of these Lives; viz. those of Hooker and 

 Herbert, we are told, were written under the roof 

 of Walton's good friend and patron. Dr. George Mor- 



* " As soon as he was perfectly recovered from this sickness, h 

 " took a journey from Oxford to Exeter, to satisfy and see his good 

 * mother; being accompanied with a countryman and companion of 

 " his own college, and both on foot ; which was, then, either more ID 

 " fashion or want of money, or their humility made it so: but oa 

 " foot they went, and took Salisbury in their way, purposelj 

 " to see the good bishop, who made Mr. Hooker and his com- 

 '* panion dine with him at his own table; which Mr. Hooker 

 ' boasted of with much joy and gratitude, when he saw his mother 

 " and friends. And at the bishop's parting with him, the bishop gave 

 u him good counsel, and his benediction, but forgot to give him money, 

 " which, when the bishop had considered, he sent a servant in all 

 " haste, to call Richard back to him: and at Richard's return, the 

 '* bishop said to him : Richard ! I sent for you back to lend you a 

 " horse, which hath carried me many a mile, and, I thank God, with 

 " much ease: and presently delivered into his hands a walking staff, 

 * with which he professed he had travelled through many parts of 

 *' Germany: and he said, Richard! I do not give, but lend you my horse ; 

 " be sure you be honest, and bring my borte back to me at your return tbi* 

 *' "way to Oxford. And I do notv give you ten groats, to bear yaur charges t0 

 " Exeter ; and here is ten groats more, "which I charge you to deliver t 

 *' your mother ; and tell her, I send her a bishop's benediction iuitb it, anj 

 " beg the continuance of her prayers for me. And if you bring my horse bock 

 " to me, I will give you ten groats more to carry you on foot to the college ; 

 and so God bless you, good Richard!" Lofe of Hooker ', in the Collection of 

 Lives, edit. 1670. 



f Introd. to Herbert's Life. 



\ Epistlt to the reader of the Ctlkctitn of Livtt. 



