THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 337 



Angler, from a collection of old ballads published in 1725. In Walton's 

 First Edition, this passage is contained in the Third Chapter ; which is 

 entitled " In Chapter 3 are some observations of Trouts, both of their nat- 

 ure, their kinds, and their breeding." 



Page in. A Idrovandus \ 



Ulysses Aldrovandus, a great physician and naturalist, born at Bologna 

 in 1527 ; he wrote 120 books on several subjects, and a Treatise " De 

 Piscibus," published last at Francfort, 1640. He died blind in an hospi- 

 tal at Bologna, in great poverty, May 4, 1605. The passage alluded to in 

 the text is in his " Serpentum et Draconum Historiae," 1640, foL Haw- 

 kins. 



Page 112. The observation of Du Bartas. 



See No. 7 in the foregoing list, p. 58, col. 2, the last 20 lines. 



Page 115. Devout Lessius. 



Leonard Lessius, Professor of Divinity in the College of Jesuits at Lou- 

 vain ; he was born at Antwerp in 1554 ; and became very famous for his 

 skill in divinity, civil-law, mathematics, physic, and history. He wrote 

 several theological tracts, and a treatise entitled Hygiasticon ; see N. 26 

 in the preceding list, from the third chapter of which the sentiments in the 

 text were extracted. He died in 1623. Hawkins. 



Page 117. Mr. Thomas Barker. 



This person, an account of whom is to be derived only from his writings, 

 appears to have been an Angler by profession, and an experienced cook 

 of fish ; since he says he " had been admitted into the most Ambassadors' 

 kitchens that had come to England for forty years, and drest fish for 

 them ; for which, he adds, he was duly paid by the Lord Protector." He 

 spent a considerable portion of his time, and, it seems, of his property 

 also, in fishing ; and in the latter part of his life, he resided in Henry the 

 Seventh's Gifts, some almshouses which stood near the Gatehouse at 

 Westminster. Hawkins. His work on Angling will be found at No. 6 

 of the preceding list, and the information contained in the text is at pp. 

 2 and 15 of the very neat reprint of that tract, published in 1821. 



Page 121. Holy Mr. Herbert. 



See No. 22 of the foregoing list, p. 80 of that volume. 



Page 123. Cfi. Harvie. 



The verses with this signature do not appear until the Second Edition ; 

 for the dialogue in the First passes immediately from Herbert's verses to 

 the Beggars' Song, which is there sung by Viator, without the introductory 

 story. It is most probable that the person mentioned above was a Chris- 

 topher Harvey, M. A., Vicar of Clifton in Warwickshire ; born in 1597, 

 and who lived until about 1663. The same signature also appears to a copy 

 of verses addressed to Walton on his Angler ; and that collection of poems 



