Notes 



Page 25. as the learned and ingenious Montaigne says. The Lord Mountagne 

 in his Apol. for Ra. Sebond. Walton's own Note. 



As Lamb was so fond of doing with his quotations, Walton has here paraphrased 

 and improved his original, and it is a not infrequent habit of his. Walton used 

 Florio's translation, probably in the folio of 1632. Cotton's translation was not 

 published till 1685. 



Page 29. Varro his aviary. Walton has been thought to have gathered this 

 out of his favourite Hakewill's Apology for the Government of God, iv. 5, but what 

 he cites is not there, though extracts from Varro on aviaries are given. The reader 

 will find Varro's own account, De Re Rustica, iii. 4, 8, et seq. His aviary, how- 

 ever, was at Casinum, in the Volscian territory, and was, with most of his wealth, 

 taken from him by Anthony. B. 



Page 30. Mr. G. Sandys in his Travels. George Sandys, or Sandies, was the 

 seventh and youngest son of Dr. Edwin Sandys, who was Archbishop of York from 

 1576 to 1588, and was born in the archiepiscopal palace, at Bishopsthorpe, in 1577. 

 In 1588 he was entered at St. Mary's Hall, Oxford, and in August, 1610, he 

 departed on his travels through Europe and Asia, which occupied two years, and 

 of which he published an account in folio, with many plates, in 1615, which has 

 been repeatedly reprinted. Sandys was not only a pious, learned, and accom- 

 plished man, but he was also one of the best versifiers of his time ; and in this 

 class of composition he published Ovid's Metamorphoses Englished, 1626, folio ; 

 A Paraphrase upon the Psalms of 'David, etc., 1636, 8vo; Christ's Passion, a Tragedy, 

 translated from H. Grotius, 1640, I2mo; and A Paraphrase upon the Song of Solomon, 

 1641, 410. George Sandys died in 1643. CHALMERS. 



To students of English poetry, Sandys is best known to-day for his use of the 

 heroic couplet, in which he anticipated Waller. The title of his book of travels 

 is : A Relation of a Journey begun A.D. 1610. Four 'Books containing a description of 

 the Turkish Empire, of Egypt, of the Holy Land, of the Remote Parts of Italy and 

 Islands adjoining. 



Page 30. assuming the shape of a dove. Walton has been criticised for this 

 material interpretation of the descent of the Holy Ghost. The use of the dove in 

 the Gospels, say various nice divines, is metaphorical, the meaning being that the 

 Holy Ghost descended gently as a dove. However, the point is one that will not 

 greatly exercise modern readers of Walton. 



Page 31. the laborious bee. Hawkins refers to an old book, which, he thinks, 

 was doubtless in Walton's memory as he wrote : The Feminine Monarchic : or the 

 Historie of Bees. Shewing their Admirable Nature and Properties, their Generation 

 and Colonies, their Government, Loyaltie, Art, Industrie, Enemies, Warres, Magna- 

 nimitie, etc. Together with the right Ordering of them from time to time ; and the sweet 

 Profit arising therefrom. Written out of experiment by Charles Butler. London, 

 1623, 410. 



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