Notes 



and the pike will agree best together, and the pike will not hurt the tenche, as 

 being the physician of all freshe water fishe." 



Page 183. Come, live with me. Written by Donne in imitation of Marlowe. 



As printed in Donne's Poems (1635) it slightly varies from Walton's version, 



reading for 



Verse 2, line 3. "And there th' innamour'd fish will stay." 

 Verse 6, line 4. " Bewitch poor fishes wandering eyes." 

 Verse 7, line 4. "Alas, is wiser far than I." 



Page 1 86. Label. Lobel, sometimes called 1'Obel, but more correctly Mat- 

 thias de Lobel, a native of Lisle, who studied at Montpelier, and was a pupil of 

 Rondeletius. He was eminent as a physician, and principally as a botanist. After 

 travelling extensively, he visited England by invitation of James I., who appointed 

 him his botanist and physician. He superintended the Botanical Garden of Lord 

 Zouch at Hackney, and in 1570 published at London his Nova Stirpium Adver- 

 saria, afterwards Plantarum seu Stirpium Historia, which, with his Adversaria, was 

 published at Antwerp, 1576. He wrote some other works, and died 1616, 

 aged 78. H. & B. 



Page 1 86. Cjerard. John Gerard was one of the first of our English botanists, 

 was by profession a surgeon, and published, in 1597, an Herbal in a large folio, 

 dedicated to the Lord Treasurer Burleigh ; and, two years after, A Catalogue of 

 Plants, Herbs, &c., to the number of eleven hundred, raised and naturalised by 

 himself in a large garden near his house in Holborn. The latter is dedicated to 

 Sir Walter Raleigh. 



The reference is from book iii. 171, " On the goose tree, barnacle tree, or the 

 tree bearing geese," which has a curious woodcut. H. & B. 



Page 1 8 8. this lamprey that Crassus the orator (who kept her) lamented her death. 

 Walton alludes to the story told in Lord Bacon's Apothegms (215), of Crassus 

 retorting upon Domitius, who ridiculed him for weeping over a pet muraena of his 

 which had died " That's more than you did for both your wives." Plutarch (De 

 Soler. &fnim.) says it was a mullet, and that Domitius had buried three wives. The 

 reader will perceive the anachronism into which Walton has fallen by confounding 

 Domitius with the Emperor Domitian. The fish belonged to Crassus him- 

 self. H. & B. 



Page 1 88. eels . . . upon dry ground. Dr. Plot, in his History of Staffordshire, 

 p. 242, mentions certain waters and a pool that were stocked by eels that had, 

 from waters they liked not, travelled in arido, or over dry land, to these other. H. 



A well-known fact. 



Page 1 88. our Camden relates. Camden's relation is to this effect, viz., 

 " That at a place called Sefton, in the above county, upon turning up the turf, 



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