Notes 



To lodge all frwre in one bed make a shift 

 Until Doomesdaye, for hardly ivill a fft 

 Betivixt y* day and y* by Fate be slayne, 

 For vjhom your Curtaines may be drawn againe 

 If your frecedency in death doth barre 

 A fourth place tn your sacred sepulcher, 

 Under this car-ven marble of thine owne, 

 Sleepe, rare Tragcedian, Shakespeare, sleefe alone; 

 Thy unmolested peace, unshared Cave, 

 Possesse as Lord, not Tenant, of thy Grave, 

 That unto us and others it may be 

 Honor hereafter to be layde by thte. 



Ben Jonson alludes to this epitaph in his lines prefixed to the First Folio : 



My Shakespeare rise; I "will not lodge thte by 



Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lye 



A little further, to make thee a roome. . . . 



Page 98. Jo. ChalkhilL See Introduction. 



Page 99-101. The ^Angler's Song. In the first edition this song is signed 

 *' W.B." apparently William Basse. 



Page 102. Waltham. The town of Waltham Abbey lies on the river, and the 

 cross (an Eleanor Cross) stands on the main road, a little over a mile to the West. 



Page 105. when you are put to an extremity for worms. Cf. Erasmus Colloquies, 

 that entitled " Venatio." N. 



Page Iio. our Topsel. In his History of Serpents. Walton's own note. 



Page no. dldrovandus. Ulysses Aldrovandus, born at Bologna, 1527, pro- 

 fessor of physic and philosophy. He travelled extensively in search of minerals, 

 plants, animals, birds, fishes, &c. ; and expended all his means in procuring figures 

 for his plates from the best specimens. He died blind and utterly poor in a hos- 

 pital at Bologna. He wrote a hundred and twenty books, and one De Tiscibus, 

 published at Bologna, edited by J. C. Uteruerius and M. Ant. Bernia, 1638, and 

 at Frankfort, 1640. His great work, On Birds and Insects, in six large folio 

 volumes, was published during his life, and continued on his plan after his death. 

 The passage in the text occurs in his Serpentum et 'Draconum Historia, 1640. 

 Walton is quoting at second hand. B. 



Page III. to answer this very description. This description is marked as a 

 quotation in the first edition ; but the author quoted from is not given. It is not 

 Lord Bacon, though Walton says in a footnote : " View Sir Fra. Bacon, Exper. 

 728 and 90 (the last a mistake of his printer, for 29, /'. e., 729), in his Natural 

 History." B. 



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