ISAACUM WALTONUM. cv 



Stylo eleganti scribis en Halieiitica 

 Oppianu3 alter artis ct methodum tucB, et 

 PrcBcepta promts rite piscatorin, 

 Varias et escas piscium, indolem et genus. 

 JVec tradere artem sat putas piscariam 

 {Virf litis est et hccc tamen quccdam schola 

 Patientiamque et temperantiam docet), 

 Documenta quin majora das, et regulas 

 Sublimioris artis, et peren7iia 

 Monimenta mon/m, vitcB et exempla optima ; 

 Bum tuprofundimi scribis Hookerum, et pium 

 Donnum ac disertum, sanctum et Herbertum, sacrum 

 Vatem ; lios videmns nam penicillo tuo 

 Graphice, et peritu, Isace, depietos manu. 

 Post fata factos hosce per te Virhios.* 

 O qucB voluptas est legere in scriptis tuis ! 

 Sic til libris nos, lineis pisces capis, 

 Musisque litterisque diim inciimbis, licet 

 Intentus hamo, interque piscandum studes. 



* Virbius, quasi bis vir, is an epithet applied to Hippolytus, because he 

 was by Diana restored to life after his death. Vide Ovidii Met., lib. xv., 

 v., 536., et seq. Hoffmanni Lexicon Universale art. Virbius. In this 

 place it is meant to express that by Walton's skill in biography, those per- 

 sons whose lives he has written, are so accurately represented, as that 

 even after their deaths, they are again, as it were, brought to life. 



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