THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 335 



land's Helicon, 1600, 4to ; as is also the Answer, there signed Ignoto, 

 but ascribed by Walton to Sir Walter Raleigh. Marlowe is said towards 

 the end of his life to have become a professed atheist : he died before 

 1593, of a wound given him by a serving-man, who was his rival. Haw- 

 kins. 



Page 95. What song was if, I pray ? 



See the songs As at Noon, Chevy Chace, Johnny Armstrong, and Troy 

 Town, printed after the most authentic copies in Percy's Reliques of Eng- 

 lish Poetry. Hawkins. Phillida flouts me was printed in the Theatre of 

 Compliments. Lond. 1689, I2mo ; but it is also to be found in a volume 

 collected by J. Ritson, entitled Ancient Songs from the Time of King 

 Henry the Third to the Revolution. Lond. 1792, I2mo, Art. xi. p. 235. 

 The Editor of that collection states, in the notice preceding the verses, 

 that there is a modern Answer by A. Bradley, and that the song of Come, 

 Shepherds, is not known ; the last, however, was discovered in a manu- 

 script belonging to the late Richard Heber, Esq., and was printed in Mr. 

 Pickering's edition of the Complete Angler, from the communication of 

 Mr. T. Rodd. 



Page 95. Come, live with me, and be my love. 



The notes of various Shakespearian commentators on the Comedy of 

 The Merry Wives of Windsor contain the principal information now ex- 

 tant concerning this song ; but the propriety of ascribing it to Shakespeare 

 is also considered in Dr. Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, vol. 

 L p. 322, where it is printed under the title of The Passionate Shepherd 

 to his Love. Dr. Warburton assigns it to Shakespeare, perhaps because 

 Sir Hugh Evans, in Act iii. Sc. I, of the above play, sings four lines of it ; 

 and it was printed, with some variations, in a collection of Poems said to 

 be Shakespeare's, printed by Thomas Cotes for John Benson, 1640, I2mo. 



Page 96. Sir Thomas Overbury's Milkmaid" 1 s wish. 



See the preceding list, No. 32, in which the following exquisite character 

 is delineated with a simple beauty of language that is the very counterpart 

 of Walton's own. 



" A faire and happy Milk- Maid 



Is a Countrey Wench, that is so farre from making her selfe beautifull by 

 Art, that one looke of hers is able to put all face-Physicke out of counte- 

 nance. She knowes a faire looke is but a Dumbe Orator to commend 

 vertue, therefore minds it not. All her excellencies stand in her so 

 silently, as if they had stolne upon her without her knowledge. The lin- 

 ing of her apparell (which is her selfe) is farre better than outsides of Tts- 

 sew : for though she be not arrayed in the spoile of the Silke-worme, shee 

 is 4eckt in innocency, a far better wearing. She doth not, with lying long 



