THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 331 



cf the World," in seven books. In six years, it passed through upwards 

 of thirty editions ; and an English translation of it in verse, by Joshua 

 Sylvester, merchant-adventurer of London, was published in 1605. Du 

 Bartas held the doctrines of Calvinism ; he was a modest and reserved 

 man, a brave soldier, and he died in 1590, at the age of forty-six. The 

 passage quoted in the text will be found in the Fifth Day of the First 

 Week, line 33, but it is considerably varied from the original : see No. 7 

 in the list of Authorities, and p. 39, col. 2, of that volume. In the quota- 

 tion from Du Bartas in the text, the word Stares is put for Starlings : it is 

 derived from the Saxw Staer or the Teutonic Sterre, ultimately from 

 the Latin Sturnus. The Two Ecclesiastical Fishes mentioned by Du 

 Bartas are described by Rondeletius, and delineated in the Posthu- 

 mous Works of Mr. John Gregory, Land. 1683, 4 to pages 121, 122. 

 Haiukins. 



Page 62. The Cuttle-fish, etc. 



The margin in all the editions refers to Montaigne's Essays, see No. 29 

 of the preceding list ; and in the Apology for Raymond de Sebonde, book 

 ii. chap. xii. p. 256, is the passage alluded to. 



Page 63. &lian. 



Claudius ^Elianus was a Roman sophist of Praeneste in Italy, in the reign 

 of Adrian, who originally taught Rhetoric at Rome ; but taking a dislike 

 to his profession, he became an author, and wrote seventeen books De 

 Animalium Natura, and fourteen of various History, etc., in Greek. He 

 died in his sixtieth year, A.D. 140. The passage from the words " And 

 there is a fish," down to *' most of mankind," was not inserted till the Third 

 Edition of The Complete Angler, 1664. 



Page 63. And first -what Du Bartas says. 



See No. 7 in the preceding list, and the Fifth Day of the First Week, 

 line 195, p 41, col. I, of that volume : the verses on the Cantharus and 

 the Mullet mentioned on pages 63 and 64, immediately follow the above 

 at lines 201 and 205 ; and Walton's reference to the custom of the Thra- 

 cian women also came from Du Bartas, beginning at line 209. The 

 account of the Sargus was taken by Du Bartas from Oppian's Halieutics, 

 lib. iv. 



Page 64, Pheer prest. 



Pheer, or Fere, Saxon, Fera, Gefera, is a Mate, an Equal ; and an- 

 ciently, as in the present instance, a Husband or Wife. Prest is the old 

 orthography of the French Pret, Ready. Hawkins. 



Page 67. The Voyages of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto. 



A native of Monte Mor Ouelho in Portugal, born about 1510, and 

 whose Travels, written by himself, have been very much questioned as to 

 their truth. For twenty-one years of his life he was journeying chiefly in 



