ISAACUM WALTONUM. cvii 



JVcB tu magister, et ego discipulus tuus, 

 J\\rm Caiididatum (t luc ferunt aninflinis, 

 Socium hac in arte nobilein nacti fumus. 

 Quid amp/ius, Waltone, nam did potest ? 

 Ipse hamiota Dominus en orbis fuit .' 



Jaco. Dup. D.D.* 



And Master, thou, and Scholar, I, 



A dread associate may record 

 (For I, too, watch the mimic fly), 



A Fisher was great Nature's Lord. 



* James Duport, S. T. P., Master of Magdalen College, Cambridge, 

 1608, and became Dean of Peterborough on the -JTth of July, 16G4. He was 

 the son of John Duport, who assisted in the translation of King James's 

 Bible ; was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; afterwards Professor 

 of Greek in that University ; and died about 1670. Fuller's Church His- 

 tory, B. X. Walton, in his life of Herbert, says that Dr. Duport had col- 

 lected and published Herbert's Poems. In a collection of Latin poems, by 

 Dean Duport, entitled Muses Suhsecivce, printed in Svo., 1676, the verses 

 in the text, and some in Walton's Life of Herbert, will be found pp. 101, 

 118, 371. A short account of this person is given by Bishop Kennett in 

 the Lansdowne MSS., 986, 987. — Sir Harris JVicholas. 



Duport was the author of a curious and learned work (in my collection) 

 of which Sir Harris seems not to have known : Homcri Gnomologia, Du- 

 plici Parallelismo illusfrata ; Uno Ex LocisS. Scriptures, quibus Gno- 

 nice HomericcB aut prope affines aut non prorsus absimiles ; Altera ex Gen- 

 tium Scriptoribus, Sfc, loci Paralldi. Per Jacobum Duportum, Canta- 

 hrigiensem GrceccB LingucB nuper Professorem Regiiun, 4to., Cantab., 

 1660. It abounds in critical and other notes, and has a fanciful dedication 

 to what he calls a quaternio7i of his pupils, Edward Cecil, John Knatch- 

 bull, Henry Puckering, and Francis Willoughby.— .i/». Ed. 



