THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



to the learning of Moses, mentioned on page 52, is to Acts vii. 22 ; and 

 hat which alludes to his meekness is to Numbers xiii. 3. 



Page 53* ffe that shall view the writings of Macrobius or Varro. 



This passage occurs first in the Second Edition of The Complete Angler, 

 1655 ; and the materials of it are taken, with little alteration in the lan- 

 guage, from lib. iv. sect. 6, p. 434, of Dr. Hakewill's Apology, etc. ; see 

 the preceding list, No. 21. Aurelius Macrobius was a Latin writer of the 

 fourth century, who is by some supposed to have been a Christian, and 

 Chamberlain to the Emperor Theodosius II. His principal production is 

 the " Saturnalia Convivia," in seven books, consisting of a miscellaneous 

 collection of antiquities and criticisms, supposed to have been derived 

 from the conversation of some learned Romans, during the Saturnalian 

 Festival. The circumstances mentioned in the text will be found in lib. 

 ii. cap. xi. of that work. He also wrote a Commentary on Cicero's Som- 

 nium Scipionis, and many other books which are now lost ; but his latinity 

 is often corrupt, as he was not born in a part of the Roman Empire where 

 the Latin language was spoken. The passage taken from Varro will be 

 found in his book. ** De Re Rustica," lib. iii. cap. xvii. 



Page 54. A most learned physician^ Dr. Wharton. 



Dr. Thomas Wharton was descended from an ancient family in York- 

 shire, and was originally educated at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge ; whence 

 he removed to Trinity College, Oxford, before the breaking out of the 

 civil wars. On the commencement of the rebellion, he came up to Lon- 

 don, and practised physic under the eminent Dr. John Bathurst, until 

 1646, when he again returned to his college, and, through the recommen- 

 dation of Lord Fairfax, was created M.D. early in 1647. ^ n l ^S ne was 

 admitted a Fellow of the College of Physicians in London, where he re- 

 sided in Aldersgate Street, and remained in the city throughout the whole 

 of the last Plague of 1665. He died at his house on the I4th of Novem- 

 ber, 1673. He published an excellent description of the Glands, written 

 in Latin, which was printed at London in 1656, 8vo. Amsterd. 1659. 

 Hawkins. Dr. Wharton's name was not inserted in the text at this place 

 till the Edition of 1676 ; and the First is entirely without the eulogy on 

 water. It is worthy of remark, that the whole of these passages relating to 

 Hawking, Hunting, and Angling are copied almost verbatim, in a very pop- 

 ular and well-kaown work, entitled "The Gentleman's Recreation" ; of 

 which the first edition was printed in 1674, six years after the fourth edi- 

 tion of Walton's Angler ; and that portion of The Gentleman's Recreation 

 which treats of Fishing is merely an abstract of Walton's researches. An- 

 other imitation of this author, although of a much slighter extent, may be 

 <*)und in the Works of Bishop Home, Edit, by W. Jones, Land. 1809, 

 fcvo, yoL iv. p. 537, iri a Discourse composed at Brighthelmston, entitled 



