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lanea, 14 ; 2, 34.) in the library of Emanuel College, 

 Cambridge, has, with his own hand, marked its title 

 thus : " Is. Walton's 2 letters cone. y e . Dislemps of ye. 

 " Times, 1680." The style, the sentiment, the argu- 

 mentation, are such as might be expected from a plain 

 man, actuated only by an honest zeal to promote the 

 publick peace. And if we consider that it was written by 

 our u quiet and conformable Citizen./' in the 87th year 

 of his age, a season of life when the faculties of the mind 

 are usually on the decline, it will be scarcely possible 

 not to admire the clearness of his judgment and the 

 unimpaired vigour of his memory. The work, which 

 breathes the genuine spirit of benevolence and candor, 

 is not altogether inapplicable to more recent times ; and 

 it has been reprinted as lately as 1795. gouch.'] 



Besides the Works of Walton above-mentioned, there 

 are extant, of his writing, Verses on the death of Dr. 

 Donne, beginning, " Our Donne is dead ;" Verses to 

 his reverend friend the Author of the Synagogue, print* 

 ed together with Herbert's Temple * / Verses before 

 Alexander Brome's Poems, octavo, 1646, and before 

 Shirley's Poems, octavo, 1646, and before Cart- 

 wright's Plays and Poems, octavo, 1651. He wrote 

 also the following Lines under an engraving of Dr, 

 Donne, before his Poems, published in 1635. 



This was for youth, strength, mirth, and wit that time 



Most count their golden age t j but was not thine : 



Thine was, thy later years ; so much refined 



From youth's dross, mirth, and wit, as thy pure mind 



Thought (like the angels) nothing but the praise 



Of thy Creator, in those last, best da; s, 



Witness this book, (thy emblem,) which begins 

 With love ; but ends with aigbs and tears for sins. 



Dr. Henry King, bishop of Chichester in a Letter 

 to Walton, dated in November, 1664 \ and in which 



* ftJg, infra, the SiGNATURk to the second Copy of Commendatory 

 Ferses, and page 186,n. 



f Alluding to his age, viz. eighteen; when the picture was painted 

 from which the print was taken. 



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