7« THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



,..,!/ my man such praises have. 



What then have I, that taught the knave ?* 



But what have we got here, a rock springing up in the middle 



of the river ? this is one of the oddest sights that ever I saw. 



Pisc. Why, Sir, from that pike, that you see standing up there 



• 'T' k '^^stant from the rock, this is called Pike-Pool,* 



in the fashion of ^^id young Mr. Izaak Walton was so pleased 



a spire-steeple, with it, as to draw it in landscape in black and 



and almost as white, in a blank book I have at home, as he has 



big. It stands in j^^^g several prospects of my house also, which 



the midst of the ,1 r • i /> i • /• j ^^^ 



n J -I keep for a memorial ot his lavor, and will 



river Dove ; and " _ ' 



not far from Mr. show you, when we come up to dinner. 

 Cotton's house, below which place this delicate river takes a swift career 

 betwixt many mighty rocks, much higher and bigger than St. PauVs 

 Church before Hwas burnt. And this Dove being opposed by one of the 

 highest of them, has at last forced itself a way through it ; and, after a 

 mile's concealment, appears again with more glory and beauty than 

 before that opposition, running through the most pleasant valleys and 

 most fruitful meadows that this nation can justly boast of 



ViAT. Has young master Izaak Walton been here too ? 



Pisc. Yes, marry has he. Sir, and that again and again too, 

 and in France since, and at Rome, and at Venice, and I can't 

 tell where ;"|" but I intend to ask him a great many hard questions 

 so soon as I can see him, which will be, God willing, next month. 

 In the meantime. Sir, to come to this fine stream at the head of 



• From Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, Book i., which reads, 



" For if my man must praises have, 



What then must I, that keep the knave ?" 



t Some account of this amiable man, who inherited his father's piety, 

 and a measure of his talents, has been given in the Bib. Preface. He ac- 

 companied liis uncle, liishop Ken, to Rome, in the year of the great Papal 

 Jubilee, 1C75, from which journey, according to the text, he must have 

 returned the next year. His skill as an artist was considerable, and Bowles 

 {Life of Ken) snys that an interesting s|)ecimen of it is preserved by his 

 relation Dr. Hawes, whicli is nothing less than a portrait in crayons of his 

 venerable fatlier. His face, as we see it in a portrait among the additional 

 ])late3 to Pickering's great edition of Walton, is of singular beauty, giving 

 evidence of refinement and goodness. — Am. Ed. 



