Notes 



the Taking of any Fish, in Pond or River : practised and familiarly opened in three 

 Bookes. By I. D., Esquire. Printed at London, for Roger Jackson, and are to be 

 sould at his shop neere Fleet Street Conduit, 1613." 



As usual, Walton has, from a slip of memory, or more probably from design, 

 varied the lines, as he puts for "Tyne and Trent," " Trent and Avon," " Barbel," 

 for " Perch ; " and the three last lines of the first verse instead of those of Dennys, 

 which are, 



While they proud Thais fainted cheek embrace, 

 And ivith the fume of strong tobacco smoke, 

 And quajjing round, are ready for to choke. 



besides other less noticeable changes. B. 



In the books of the Stationers' Company (1612) it is entered as by John 'Dennys, 

 and there seems no doubt that such was the real name of the author, the only 

 point still left unsettled by the controversy as to its authorship being the question : 

 which John Dennys was it ? Sir Harris Nicolas decided that it was John Dennys, 

 lord of the Manor of Oldbury-sur-Montem, in the county of Gloucester (1572 

 1608) and son of Sir Walter Dennys, of Pucklechurch, in that county, by 

 Agnes, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Robert Davers or Danvers. Westwood, 

 however, in the preface to his edition of The Secrets of dngling (1883), decides in 

 favour of the author being Sir Walter's great-grandson, the John Dennys who 

 was buried at Pucklechurch in 1609, four years previous to the publication of the 

 volume. 



Page 64. chequered with water-lilies. Did Walton mean the yellow iris, or 

 the common river " flag " ? 



Page 67. CMr. Nicholas Seagrave. Charles Seagrave, of Scalford, in Leicester- 

 shire, Esq., who was living in 1606, left issue, by Alice, his wife, daughter of John 

 Flower, of Whitwell, in the county of Rutland, four sons, the fourth of which was 

 named Nicholas, and who was probably the person mentioned. N. 



Page 67. Old Rose. An old Cavalier drinking song which ran as follows : 



Now ive're met like jovial fellows, 



Let us do as wise men tell us, 

 Sing Old Rose and burn the bellows ; 



Let us do as "wise men tell us. 

 Sing, etc. 



When the jowl ivith claret glows, 



And "wisdom shines upon the nose, 

 then is the time to sing Old Rose, 



And burn, burn the bellows, 

 The bellows, and burn, burn the bellows, the bellows. N. 



Page 69. the wise statutes made in the lyh of Edward I., etc. The reader 

 will find these statutes quoted by Sir Harris Nicolas, vol. i. pp. 90-91. 



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