Notes 



Page 69. A sin so against nature . . . . See Deuteronomy, xxii. 6, 7. 

 Page 69. Trout Hall. Has not been identified. Probably a fanciful name. 



Page 77. You shall read in Seneca Walton is said, by some of his 



editors, to be quoting Seneca at second-hand, through Hakewill, but he must have 

 followed Hakewill's reference to Lodge's translation of Seneca, published 1614, as 

 he gives more particulars than Hakewill. B. 



Page 80. ZMercator. Gerard Mercator (1512-1594), the famous geographer 

 and mathematician, born at Roermond, in the Netherlands. 



Page 80. Fordidge Trout. Fordwich is about two miles east of Canterbury 

 and the river, the Stour. Yarrell says, unhesitatingly, that the Fordwich trout is 

 the salmon trout (salmo trutta of Linnaeus, salmo albus or white trout, Flem. Brit. 

 An.), what is called the hirling m some parts of Scotland. He says also, in 

 contradiction to Walton and his friend Sir George Hastings, that quantities are 

 taken with the rod, and on being examined, are found full of various insects, 

 particularly the sandhopper. The very rapid digestion of the salmon family led to 

 our author's error. B. 



Page 80. Sir George Hastings. Apparently Sir George Hastings, son arid heir 

 of the celebrated Henry Hastings, of Woodlands, second son of George, fourth 

 Earl of Huntingdon. Sir George Hastings died, 25 Oct., 1561, aged sixty- 

 three. N. 



Page 82. leave us for a better climate. View Sir Fran. Bacon, Exper. 899. 

 Walton's own note. 



Page 82. Albertus. The famous Albertus Magnus, Bishop of Ratisbon, 1260. 

 He assisted at the General Council of Lyons, 1274, and died 1282, at Cologne, in 

 great odour of sanctity. His works occupy twenty-one folio volumes. 



Pages 87-90. that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlowe. . . . Come live 



with me This song has been claimed for Shakespeare, and the first time 



it appeared in print was in The Passionate Pilgrim (1599). Several lines are also 

 quoted in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act. iii. Sc. i., first printed in 1602. 

 However, in England's Helicon, where Walton probably found it, it bears the 

 name of Marlowe ; and in The Jew of Malta, written before 1593, these lines 

 occur : 



Thau in "whose groves by Dis above, 

 Shall live ivith me and be my love. 



It has usually been considered Marlowe's, though it certainly recalls the 



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