32O THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



taken from the copy of this volume in the Library of Sion College, Lon- 

 don, are as follow : 



' Lucian, well skill'd in old toyes, this hath writ: 

 For all 's but folly that men thinke is wit ; 

 No settled judgement doth in men appear: 

 But thou admirest that which others jeer.'' 



Page 43. The learned and ingenuous Montaigne says. 



The original edition, in this place, reads, "And as for any Scoffer, ' qui 

 mockat, mockabiturS Let mee tell you, (that you may tell him) what the 

 wittie French-man sayes in such a case." The extract then follows, and 

 a marginal note refers to the authority. The edition of Montaigne's Essays 

 used by Walton was in all probability that marked No. 29 in the foregoing 

 list : the passage alluded to will be found in Chap. XIL, "An Apologie of 

 Raymond de Sebonde," and on page 250 of the volume ; but the para- 

 phrase which has been given at the place above quoted is far more beauti- 

 ful and copious than the original. Michel de Montaigne, whose amusing 

 and instructive Essays Walton seems carefully to have read, was born at 

 the Chateau de Montagne, in Perigord, on February the 28th, 1533. As 

 soon as he could speak he was sent into Germany to learn Latin, which he 

 understood perfectly when he was only six years old ; the Greek he also 

 acquired with considerable ease ; and by the time he was thirteen, his 

 education was finished. As he was intended for the profession of the law, 

 he married Frangoise de la Chassaigne, the daughter of a Councillor of 

 the Parliament of Bourdeaux ; but although he was extensively employed 

 and caressed in Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, the retirement of study 

 was most congenial to his feelings. Charles IX. of France invested him 

 with the Order of St. Michael, and he died on his own estate on the I5th 

 of September, 1592. His principal work is his Moral, Political, and Mili- 

 tary Essays, which are replete with information on all subjects, and espe- 

 cially on natural history ; but he also published a volume of travels, and a 

 French translation of the Natural Theology of Raymond de Sebonde. 

 John Florio, the Resolute, as he styled himself, who made that translation 

 of Montaigne's Essays, consulted by Walton, was the son of Italian parents 

 who were Waldenses, and who fled to London to avoid the Papal perse- 

 cutions. In that city he was born in the reign of Henry VIII. Florio 

 taught Italian and French in the University of Oxford, and also to Anne, 

 the Queen of James L, and Prince Henry his son. He died of the pla.gue 

 at Fulham, in 1625, at the age of 80. 



Page 44. I hope in time to disabuse you. 



This expression is now nearly obsolete ; it is derived from the old French 

 Desabuser, to undeceive. In Chap. in. page 101, the same word occurs 

 gain, and in the Rev. H. J. Todd's edition of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary, 



