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succeeded to the family-seat of Standon, and he died without issue, on 

 February the I2th, 1660 (1661) ; Scott's Sadler's Papers. He appears to 

 have had a great attachment to angling, and Sir Henry Chauncey, in his 

 Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire, p. 219, says of him, that "he 

 brought an action of trespass Quare vi et armis against John Hyat in the 

 Court of King's Bench, for fishing in the river Standon leading through 

 his own land, and for erecting a weir there ; and he obtained judgment 

 thereupon. He delighted much in hawking and hunting, and the pleas- 

 ures of a country life ; was famous for his noble table, his great hospitality 

 to his neighbors, and his abundant charity to the poor." The original 

 edition of Walton's work in this part reads as follows. " Viator. In- 

 deed, Sir, a little business and more pleasure : for my purpose is to be- 

 stow a day or two in hunting the otter, which my friend, that I go to 

 meet, tells me is more pleasant than any hunting whatsoever : and, having 

 despatched a little business this day, my purpose is to-morrow to follow 



the dogs of honest Mr. , who hath appointed me and my friend to 



meet him upon Amwell-hill to-morrow morning by daybreak." 



Page 43. According to Lucian. 



The First Edition of the Complete Angler has these verses placed im- 

 mediately after the extract from Montaigne, which was introduced by the 

 same remarks which now precede it, upon Viator's answer to that speech 

 of Piscator, in which he declares himself an enemy to the Otter, both on 

 the account of his brother-anglers and his own. At page 5, in the original 

 impression, Viator^ who is the subsequent Venator, though without his 

 discourse in praise of Hunting, says : "Sir, to be plain with you, I am 

 sorry you are an Angler : for I have heard many grave, serious men pitie, 

 and many pleasant men scoffe, at Anglers." Piscator's reply is then nearly 

 the same as it now appears, with the transposition already mentioned ; 

 but at the end of the sentence ' ' and I hope I may take, " etc. , see page 50, 

 he continues : " But, if this satisfie not, I pray bid the scoffer put this Epi- 

 gram in his pocket, and read it every morning for his breakfast (for I wish 

 him no better) ; Hee shall find it fixed before the Dialogues of Lucian, who 

 may justly be accounted the father of the family of all scoffers : And, 

 though I owe none of that fraternitie so much as good-will, yet I have 

 taken a little pleasant pains to make such a conversion of it as may make 

 it the fitter for all of that fraternity." The translation of Lucian alluded 

 to by Walton is entitled " Certain select Dialogues of Lucian : together 

 with his true history," translated from the Greek into English by Mr. 

 Francis Hickes. Oxford, 1634, 410, The book was published by Thomas 

 Hickes, M. A., the son of the translator ; and at the end of an address 

 "To the honest and judicious reader," is the Epigram already referred 

 to, printed in Greek and English, and signed T. H, The original lines, 



