Notes 



till they had travelled art and nature thro 1 ; 

 At by their choice collections may appear, 

 Of -what is rare in land, in seas, in air ; 

 Whilst they (as Homer's Iliad, in a nut) 

 A "world of wonders in one closet shut. 

 These famous Antiquarians, that had been, 

 Both Gardeners to the Rose and Lily S^ucen, 

 Transplanted ncna themselves, sleep here ; and iv/ien 

 Angels shall with their trumpets -waken men, 

 And f re shall purge the "world, these hence shall rl:c, 

 And change their gardens for a Paradise. 



The Tradescants were the first collectors of natural curiosities in this Kingdom. 

 The younger of them published in 1656, I2mo, "Museum Tradescantianum ; or 

 a Collection of Rareties preserved at South Lambeth, near London," containing 

 portraits of his father and himself, engraved by Hollar. Tradescant's house is 

 still known by the name of Turret-House, and is now, or was in 1809, in the 

 occupation of Charles Bedford, Esq. Sir Henry Ellis, quoted by Nicholas. 



The house has since been pulled down. 



Ashmole. (1617-1692). In addition to his being an antiquary and collector 

 and founder of the Ashmolean Museum, as already stated in the preceding 

 note, Elias Ashmole was a famous student of alchemy and the occult sciences 

 generally. His best known writings are his curious diary, his History of the Order 

 of the (farter, and his alchemical treatise, Theatrtim Chemictim f Britannicum, containing 

 several Poetical Pieces of our famous Philosophers who have written the Hertnetique 

 Mysteries in their ozvn Ancient Language. 



Page 45. that holy poet, ZM.r. Cjeorge Herbert. George Herbert is too well 

 known to modern readers to need any note, and the same applies to Marlowe, 

 Drayton, Donne, and Sir Walter Raleigh, whose names are left without 

 comment. 



Walton here adapts his quotation, a practice of his to which allusion has been 

 made. 



Page 46. Pliny. Walton quotes from Philemon Holland's translation, 

 1601. 



Page 46. Gesner, Rondeletius. Conrad Gesner (1516-1565) a learned physician 

 and naturalist of Zurich. His principal works were his Historia Animalium, 

 in three folio volumes, Zurich, and a smaller volume, De Piscibus et Aquatilibus, 

 curious for Scholia on the Halicuticon, ascribed to Ovid, a list of the fish in Pliny, 

 and their names in Latin, German, and English. My copy of the last has no 

 date. B. 



Rondeletius, or Guillaume Rondelet, a physician and naturalist of Languedoc. 

 His best work is De Piscibus ZMarinis. Walton is really citing from Topsel's 

 Hiitorie of Four-footed Beasts, 1607, and Hist, of Serpents, 1608. B. 



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