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and ever will be associated with his name. In 1624 he 

 went to London, and entered into business as a draper. In 

 1626 he married Rachel Floud, a descendant of Archbishop 

 Cranmer. He had seven children by this marriage, but 

 they all died young, and his wife died in 1640. He married 

 again in 1646, the daughter of the then Bishop of Bath and 

 Wells. At the age of fifty he retired from business, and 

 devoted himself to literature and angling. His second wife 

 died in 1662, aud was buried at Winchester. He brought 

 out and published the "Complete Angler" when he was 

 sixty years of age. It attained a wide popularity, and ran 

 through many editions. It is considered to be one o\ the 

 best styles of English pastoral writing, even up to the 

 present day, and no angler should be without a copy of it, 

 as there is a fund of information in it, written in quaint 

 and most beautiful language. He published several works 

 after this celebrated one, and ended his days at Winchester 

 on the fifteenth of December, 1683. In the cathedral of 

 that city, in a chapel in the south aisle, on a black marble 

 stone, is this incription to his memory : 



1bere restetb tbe bcDs of 



MR. ISAAC WALTON, 



tbe I5tb December, 16S3. 



Alas ! he's gone before ; 

 Gone to return no more. 

 Our panting hearts aspire 

 After their aged sire, 

 Whose well-spent life did last 

 Full ninety years and past ; 

 But now he hath begun 

 That which will ne'er be done ; 

 Crowned with eternal bliss, 

 We wish our souls with his. 



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