Introduction 



HERE RESTETH THE BODY OF 

 MR. ISAAC WALTON 



WHO DYED THE 15" OF DECEMBER 

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Alas he's gone before. 

 Gone to returne no more ! 

 Our panting Breasts aspire 

 After their aged Sire^ 

 Whose well spent life did last^ 

 Full ninety yeares and past. 

 But now he hath begun 

 That which will ne're be done 

 Crowd d with eternal! bllsse : 

 We wish our Souls with his. 



VOTIS MODESTIS SIC FLERUNT LIBERI. 



And now we may pass on to the record of his literary life, and to 

 a fuller account of his relations with those friends whom so far we 

 have but mentioned. 



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