Notes 



plimentary verses to his "very worthy and most ingenious friend, Mr. James 

 Shirley," which are prefixed to Shirley's Poems, 1646. N. 



Henry Bayley, Artium Magister. Between these verses and the lines by Robert 

 Floud, there was printed in the second edition a long poem by Alexander Brome, 

 to whom Walton addressed his eclogue of Damon and T)orus, but for some 

 unexplained reason it was omitted in the three subsequent editions. " Henry 

 Bayley " was printed " Henry Bagley " in the second, third, and fourth editions. 

 A Henry Bagley was minister of the Savoy from 1623 to 1625. H. 



Jaco : Dup., D.D. James Duport, S.T.P., Master of Magdalen College, 

 Cambridge, 1668, and became Dean of Peterborough on the 27th of July, 1664. 

 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 1679. Fuller's Church History, B. x. 

 p. 46. Walton, in his life of Herbert, says that Dr. Duport had collected and 

 published Herbert's Poems, In a collection of Latin poems, by Dean Duport, 

 entitled Musee Subseciva, printed in 8vo, 1676, the verses in the text, and some on 

 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. N. 



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

 which Sir Harris seems not to have known : Homeri Gnomologia, Duplici Parallel- 

 ismo illustrata ; Uno ex Locis S. Scripture, quibus Gnoma Homericee aut prop's ajfines 

 aut non prorsus absimiles ; Altero ex Gentium Scriptoribus, etc., loci Paralleli. Per 

 Jacobum Duportum, Cantabrigiensem Grtecee Lingua: nuper Professorem Regium, 410, 

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

 to what he calls a quaternion of his pupils, Edward Cecil, John Knatchbull, 

 Henry Puckering, and Francis Willoughby. B. 



A feeble translation of Duport's lines by Archdeacon Wrangham is to be found 

 in his Life of Zouch, vol. ii. 441. 



Page,2i. You are well overtaken, gentlemen The dialogue form had, of 



course, long been a traditional literary vehicle when Walton used it, being, in 

 fact, as old as literature. It has been suggested that he took a hint from 

 Plutarch's Dialogue, " Whether Water or Land Animals are the most Crafty ; " 

 Heresbachius' " Husbandry," translated by Googe, and the " Treatyse of 

 Fyshynge with an angle," attributed to Dame Juliana Berners, may possibly have 

 been read by him ; but for the opening sentences he is more specifically indebted to 

 "A Treatise of the Nature of God " (1599), attributed to Bishop Morton. How 

 close is the " striking resemblance " (as Nicolas calls it) between the salutatory 

 openings of the two books, will be seen by this quotation from the " Treatise," 

 the conversation being carried on between a " Gentleman," and a " Scholar : " 



" Gent. Well overtaken, sir ! 



Scholar. You are welcome, gentleman ! 



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