351 LIFE OF COTTON. 



ing all sorts of fruit-trees, 8vo.; and a Burlesque of 

 sundry select Dialogues of Lucian, -with the title of Bur- 

 lesque upon Burlesque, or the Scoffer scoffed, 12mo. 

 which has much the same merit as the Virgil tw- 

 vestie. 



Angling having been, the favourite recreation of Mr. 

 Cotton, for many years before this, \ve cannot but sup- 

 pose, that the publication of such a book as the Com- 

 plete Angler of Mr. Walton had attracted his notice, 

 and probably excited in him a desire to become ac- 

 quainted with the author ; and that, setting aside other 

 circumstances, the advantageous situation of Mr. Cot 

 ton, near the finest Trout-river in the kingdom, might 

 conduce to beget a great intimacy between them. For 

 certain it is, that by the year 1676 they were united by 

 the closest ties of friendship : Walton, as also his son-, 

 Iiad been frequent visitants to Mr. Cotton, at Beresford ; 

 ivho for the accommodation of the former, no less than 

 of himself, had erected a fishing-house on the bank of 

 the river, with a stone in the front thereof, containing a 

 cypher that incorporated the initials of both their 

 names. 



These circumstances, together with a formal adoption, 

 by Walton, of Mr. Cotton for his son, that will be ex- 

 plained in its place*, were doubtless the inducements 

 with the latter to the writing of a Second Part of the 

 Complete Angler, and, therein, to explain more fully 

 the art of FISHING either with a NATURAL or an ARTI- 

 FICIAL fly, as also the various methods of MAKING THE 

 I.ATTER . The Book, as the author assures us, was writ- 

 ten in the short space of ten days : and first came 

 abroad, with the fifth edition of the First Part, in the 

 above year 1676; and ever since, the two parts have 

 been considered as one book. 



The Second Part of the Complete Angler is, appa- 

 rently, an imitation of the First. It is a course of dia- 

 logues ; between the Author, shadowed under the name 



* VI* in a Note on a passage in the first Chapter in this Second Part 

 f the Comj>Iett Angler, 



