Notes 



Page 112. So slow TSbotes underneath him sees . . . View Gerh. Herbal and 

 Camden. Walton's own note. 



These verses occur in the sixth day of the first week of T)u Bartas, by Sylves- 

 ter, 1608, p. 182. 



Page 114. Lessius. Leonard Lessius, born near Antwerp, a Jesuit, first Pro- 

 fessor of Philosophy at Douay, afterwards of Divinity at Louvain. He wrote *De 

 Justitia et De Jure ; T)e Totestate Summi Tontijicis ; // Treatise on the Existence of 

 the 'Deity, and on the Sou/'s Immortality ; and another, which was translated by 

 T[imothy] S[mith], with the title Hygiasticon ; or the Right Course of Preserving 

 Life and Health unto Extreme Old &fge, Camb., 1634, I 2r n- He died in 1623, at 

 the age of 69. H. & B. 



Page 117. Mr. Thomas Barker. Author of The <Art of Angling. 



Page 125. Ch. Harvie. See previous note on Writers of Commendatory Verses. 



Page 125. Dr. Boteler. The person here named I take to be Dr. William 

 Butler, an eminent physician of Walton's time, styled by Fuller, in his Worthies, 

 Suffolk, 87, " the Esculapius of his age." He invented a medical drink, called 

 " Dr. Butler's Ale," which, if not now, was a very few years ago sold at certain 

 houses in London, which had his head for a sign. One of these was in Ivy Lane, 

 and another in an alley from Coleman Street to Basinghall Street. He was a 

 great humourist. H. Dr. Butler was born at Ipswich, about 1535, and educated 

 at Clare Hall, Cambridge. He died Jan. 29, 1618, and was buried at St. Mary's 

 Church, Cambridge. N. 



Page 127. The Angler's Song. First printed in third edition, and no doubt 

 written by Walton himself. Sir Harris Nicolas has pointed out that " the allusion 

 to ' Kenna,' which probably referred to the maiden name of his wife ' Ken,' is 

 not to be found in the third, or fourth edition, in both of which the word " Chlora " 

 is substituted for it, which, with the substitution of one vowel for another, formed 

 the anagram of his first wife's name Rachel." 



Page 127. Like Hermit Poor. A very popular old song, frequently alluded to 

 in the literature of the day, mentioned by Pepys (Feb. 12, 16667), Butler (in 

 Hudibras, Part I., canto ii. 1169), and Phineas Fletcher, who paraphasing the 

 42nd psalm, says that it may be sung to the tune of " Like Hermit Poor." There 

 are two slightly varying versions of it, but the version to which Walton alluded 

 was probably that set to music by Nicholas Laneare, a favourite ballad composer 

 of the day, published in a collection of Select ^Musical ,Ayres and Dialogues (1653), 

 and here printed. 



Like Hermit poor in pensive place obscure, 



I mean to spend my days of endless doubt : 

 To wait such ivovs as time cannot re-cure, 



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