82 LAUDATORUM CARMINA. 



Utriusque necdum & ictus, & tamen sapis. 



Ut liamiotam nempe tironem instruas ! 



Stylo elegant! scribis en Halieutica 



Oppianus alter artis & methodum tuae, & 



Praecepta promis rite piscatoria, 



Varias & escas pisciura, indolem & genus. 



Nee tradere artem sat putas piscariam, 



(Virtutis est ha3c & tamen quaedam schola 



Patientiamque & temperantiam docet,) 



Documenta quin majora das, & regulas 



Subliraioris artis, & perennia 



Monimenta morem, vitae & exempla optima, 



Dum tu profundum scribis Hookerum; & pium 



Donnum ac disertum; sanctum & Herbertum, 



sacrum 



Vatem ; hos videmus nam penicillo tuo 

 Graphice, & perita, Isace, depictos manu. 

 Post fata factos hosce per te Virbios*. 

 O quae voluptas est legere in scriptis tuis ! 

 Sic tu libris nos, lineis pisces capis, 

 Musisque litterisque dum incumbis, licet 

 Intentus hamo, interque piscandum studes. 



* VIRBIUS quasi BIS VIR, is an epithet applied to Hippolytus, be- 

 cause he was by Diana restored to life after his death. Vide Ovidii 

 Met. lib. xv. v. 536 fc5* seq. Hoffmanni Lexicon Universale, art. VIRBIUS 

 In this place it is meant to express that by Walton s skill in biography, 

 those persons whose lives he has written, are so accurately repre 

 ented, as that even after their deaths, they are again, as it were, 

 brought to life. 



