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and though a person of probity and courage, failed in address to keep his place at 

 that tempestuous court. Taking the part of the Queen Mother against Richelieu, 

 he was banished by that minister to Bretagne. After the Cardinal's death, he 

 returned to Paris, where he died, 1651. He wrote several works in Latin and 

 French, the most celebrated of which was, La Cour Sainte,en Cinq livres (the best 

 and most complete edition, 1664) ; which was translated into English : The Holy 

 Court, in Three Tomes, Written in French by Nicholas Caussin, S.I., Translated into 

 English by Sr. T. H., 1634, f6l. It is a book of morality written in an affected 

 style, though not destitute of merit, and was accused of having more reference to 

 French politics than religion. It had a great run, was often reprinted, and rendered 

 into various languages. It ranks at present with Le Pedagogue Chretien, and Les 

 Sept Trompettes. I have not been able to find the sentence quoted by Walton in 

 either the French or English versions, both of which are in my collection. Walton 

 may have quoted incorrectly from memory ; and, perhaps, himself deserves the 

 merit of condensing Caussin's meaning into the excellent aphorism which he gives ; 

 as there is a long, laboured passage to the same effect in the fifth section of The 

 Statesman, entitled " Sage Precepts drawn out of the monuments of the divine 

 Agathopolis" B. 



Page 245. I have heard a grave divine say. Dr. Donne, as a reverend and 

 learned friend of mine informs me. MOSES BROWNE. 



His admired spiritual father, Dr. Donne, in his Sermons. N. 



Page 248. some say written by Sir Harry Wotton. In the first and second 

 editions Walton wrote, "some say written by Dr. D. (Donne) :" "But let them 

 be writ by whom they will, he that writ them had a brave soul, and must needs 

 be possest with happie thoughts, at the time of their composure ; ' and I hope he 

 was an Angler ' (second edition)." Hannah says : " With this account agrees the 

 title of a copy in MS. Ashm., 38, Dr. Donne's Valediction to the Worlde. 



Raleigh and Sir Kenelm Digby have been suggested as the authors, and 

 tradition is strongly in support of Raleigh's authorship. Dr. Bethune thinks the 

 evidence against its being as late as Wotton, and thinks it may be Raleigh's, 

 though, as he says, the last verse does not bear out the story that he wrote it in 

 the Tower shortly before his execution. 



Page 249. as St. Austin in his " Confessions" Book 4, chap. 3. The passage 

 to which Walton alludes will be found in a translation of the Life of St. Jfugustine, 

 printed for John Crook, and sold at the sign of the Ship, in St. Paul's Churchyard, 

 1660, lib. 9, cap. 3. N. 



Page 251. the blessing of St. Peter's Master be with mine. A Protestant version 

 of the blessing at the end of the Berners' Treatyse : " and all those that done 

 after this rule, shall have the blessynge of god and Saynt Petyr, whyche he theyme 

 graunte, that wyth his preycyous blood us bought." B. 



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