THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



*f English poet, born about 1530, 1575, 4to, "The Gentleman's Acad- 

 emic," Lond. 1595, 4to, and " Country Contentments," Land. 1675, 410, 

 by Gervase Markham. *' Falconrie," in Two Books, Lond. 1658, 410, and 

 14 Another New and Second Book of Falconry," Lond. 1618, 4to, by Simon 

 Latham. Hawkins. The eulogies on Hawking and Hunting are not in 

 Walton's First Edition. 



Page 50. The Fichet, the Fulimart, the Mouldwarp. 



It has been ascertained that the first two of these names were anciently 

 applied indiscriminately to the Ferret and the Polecat ; but the Fitchet, 

 Fitchel, or Fitchew is a name most commonly appropriated to the Weasel, 

 and it is supposed is derived of the Teutonic Visse, Fisse, or Vitche, an 

 extremely rank animal of the Mustela or Weasel genus. Dr. Skinner, in 

 his Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae, Lond. 1671, fol., under the word 

 Fulimart, states that " it is a word which is not in any place excepting in 

 the book called The Complete Angler"; but it may be observed that 

 Juliana Barnes, in the Book of St. Albans, speaks of the Fulmarde as one 

 of the rascal beasts of chase ; and Strutt, in his " Sports and Pastimes of 

 the People of England," Lond. 1801, p. 14, places it as one of the animals 

 of rank, or fetid flight, which leave a foul scent behind them. In Dr. 

 Adam Lyttleton's Dictionary, it is called " a fetid mouse of Pontus" ; and 

 Phillips, in his " World of Words," explains it to be a species of Polecat, 

 in which sense the word Fowmarte is still used in Scotland. Francis 

 Junius calls it " Fullmer, that is the same as Polecat, a Marten. It is 

 from the Teutonic Ful, Fetid, and Merder, a Marten. Also in the Belgic 

 it is now called Visse, which was formerly Fiest, from its offensive smell." 

 Etymologicum Anglicanum. Oxon. 1743, fol. The Mouldwarp is a name 

 of the Mole, compounded of the Anglo-Saxon words Molde, dust, and 

 Weorpan, to cast. "We call," says Verstegan, "in some parts of Eng- 

 land, a mole a Mouldwarp, which is as much as to say a cast-earth." 



Page 50. How could Cleopatra have feasted Mark Antony. 



See North's Translation of Plutarch's Lives, No. 35 of the preceding 

 list, page 982. Marginal letter D. of that volume. 



Page 50. One of the qualifications that Xenophon, etc. 



The Edition of the Cyropaedia used by Walton was in all probability 

 that marked No. 44 in the preceding list ; and the passage referred to is 

 in the first book. In the translation of this author by the Hon. Maurice 

 Ashley, Lond. 1728, 8vo, it will be found in vol. i. p. 84. 



Page 52. Moses t . . . who was called the friend of Gad, 



This title in the Scriptures is usually applied to Abraham, see 2 Chron. 

 TSL 7, Isaiah xli. 8, James ii. 23 ; but in Exodus xxxiii. n, it is said that 

 *' *iod spake to Moses as a man to his friend." Walton has another pas- 

 *^. similar to the line cited above, op page 67. The reference relating 



