Introduction 



Six years after this Walton was to marry again, to be again 

 bereaved in April 1662. His second wife, like his first, was found 

 among the bishops, being Anne Ken, of the Kens of Somersetshire, 

 and half-sister to that Bishop Ken whose name has become a synonym 

 for piety. She bore him one daughter Ann, married to Dr. 

 Hawkins, of Winchester, and two sons, one of whom died in 

 infancy, and one Isaac, the Canon, who survived him. She was 

 buried in Worcester Cathedral, Walton himself writing for her the 

 following epitaph. 



Ex terris 



Here lyeth buryed soe much as 

 could dye, of ANNE the wife of 



IZAAK WALTON 



who was 



a woman of remarkable prudence, 

 and of the Primitive Piety; her great 

 and generall knowledge being adorned 

 with such true humility, and blest 

 with soe much Christian meeknesse, as 

 made her worthy of a more memorable 

 Monument. 



She dyed (Alas that she is dead!} 

 the 1 7th of Aprill 1662 aged 52 



Study to be like her. 



In his life of Hooker, Walton speaks of " a secret sacred wheel of 

 Providence most visible in marriages guided by His hand that 

 ' allows not the race to the swift,' nor ' bread to the wise,' nor good 

 wives to good men" his view apparently being that bad wives are 

 allotted to good men to exercise their virtues. It would seem, how- 

 ever, that the remark had no reference to his own matrimonial 

 experience. 



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