LIFE OF WALTON. 



following monumental inscription in the chapel of Our 

 Lady, in the cathedral church of Worcester. 



Exterris 



D. 



M. S. 



Here lyeth buried 



so much as could dye 



of ANNE, the wife of IZAAK WALTON ; 



Who was a Woman of remarkable prudence, 



and of the Primitive Piety ; 



her great, and general, Knowledge 



being adorned with such true Humility, 



and blest with so much Christian Meekness 



as made her worthy of a more memorable monument. 



She dyed (alas that she is dead !) 



the 17th of April, 1662, Aged 52. 



Study to be like her. 



Living, while in London, in the parish of St. 

 Dunstan in the West, whereof Dr. John Donne, dean 

 of St. Paul's, was vicar, he became of course a fre- 

 quent hearer of that excellent preacher, and, at length, 

 (as he himself expresses* it,) his convert. Upon his 

 decease t in 1631, Sir Henry Wotton (of whom mention 

 will be made hereafter) requested Walton to collect ma- 

 terials for a Life of the doctor, which it seems Sir Henry 

 had undertaken to write J: but Sir Henry dying before 

 he had completed the life, Walton undertook it himself; 

 and in the year 1640 finished, and published it, with 

 a Collection of the doctor's sermons^ in folio. As soon 

 as the book came out, a complete copy was sent as a 

 present to Walton, by Mr. John Donne the doctor's 

 son, afterwards doctor of laws : and one of the blank 

 leaves contained his letter to Mr. Walton ; the letter is 

 yet extant, and in print , and is a handsome and 



* Verttt of Walton at the end of Dr. Donnis Life. 



f Walton attended Dr. Donne, in his last sickness : and was present 

 when he consigned his sermons and numerous Papers to the care of Dr. 

 Henry King, who was promoted to the See of Chichester in 1641. 

 Zcucb. 



See Reltquia Wottonian*, Octavo, 1685. p. 360. 

 In Peck's Desidtrata Cnrhta t Vol. I. Lib. VI. p. 



24. In the year 



