LAUDATORTJM CARMINA. 83 



ALIUD AD 



ISAACUM WALTONUM, 



VIRUM & PISCATOREM OPTIMUM. 



ISAACE, Macte Me arte piscatoria ; 

 Hac arte Petrus principi censum dedit; 

 Hac arte princeps nee Petro multo prior, 

 Tranquillus ille, teste Tranquillo *, pater 

 Patria?, solebat recreare se lubens 

 Augustus, hamo instructus ac arundine. 

 Tu mine, Amice, proximum clari es decus 

 Post Caesarem hami, gentis ac Halieuticae : 

 Euge O professor artis baud ingloriffi, 

 Doctor cathedra, perlegens piscariam ! 

 Nae tu magister, & ego discipulus tuus, 

 Nam candidatum & me ferunt arundinis, 

 Socium hac in arte nobilem nacti sumus. 

 Quid amplius, Waltone, nam dici potest ? 

 Ipse hamiota Dominus en orbis fuit ! 



JACO. Dup.tD. D. 



* I. e. Suetonius Tranquillus. 



f The contracting of surnames is a faulty practice : the above migit 

 tand for * Duppa," but signifies " Duport" This person was a Fellow 

 of Trinity 1 College, Cambridge, and Professor of Greek in that Univer- 

 sity. His father, Jobn t had a hand in the translation of king James's Bible. 

 Fuller's Cb. Hist. Book X. p. 46. Dr. James Dufort wrote, also, the Latin 

 verses preceding these ; and both copies are extant in a volume of Latin 

 Poems by him, entitled Msa svbse(iv<s> printed at Cambridge, in 

 8vo. 1676. 



