Introduction 



obiet ; separate, seperate ; and divided, demded " / * Sir Harris 

 Nicolas is more hopeful of poor Walton's Latin. "It is not 

 probable," he thinks, "that he received a regular classical education; 

 but although translations existed of nearly all the Latin works which 

 he quotes, it is nevertheless certain that he had some knowledge of 

 that language. His reading in English literature was various and 

 extensive, particularly in divinity." However, apart from the fact 



* Lowell might have instanced a much better known example of strange Wal- 

 tonian Latin in the " piscatoribys " for " piscatoribus " in the well-known inscription 

 on the Dovedale fishing-house. But then that is probably stonemason Latin, 

 unless Cotton, the author of the "Virgil Travestie," was responsible for it. 



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