THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



entitled the Synagogue is supposed to have been produced by the sanu 

 person. Hawkins. 



Page 123. Dr. Boteler. 



Dr. William Butler, a celebrated but eccentric physician, who was born 

 at Ipswich about 1535, and educated at Clare-Hall, Cambridge, of which 

 he became Fellow. He died January 29, 1618, and was buried at St. 

 Mary's Church, Cambridge. 



Page 124. Hear my Kenna sing a song. 



The reference to the margin indicates that Walton wishes to hear Ken- 

 na, his mistress, sing the song. Like Hermit Poor. This song was set to 

 music by Nicholas Laneare, an eminent master of Walton's time, who, 

 it is said by Wood, was also an excellent painter, and whose portrait is to 

 be seen in the Music-school at Oxford, and is printed with the notes in a 

 collection entitled Select Musical Ay res and Dialogues, fol. 1659, page I. 

 The verses which introduce this song were in all probability the production 

 of Walton, for it may be observed that Kenna is evidently a feminine for- 

 mation of Ken, the maiden name of his second wife. The first three 

 words of the song of "Like Hermit Poor" were used as a proverb or 

 phrase, about and after the middle of the seventeenth century. Haw- 

 kins. 



Page 126. Our late English G us man. 



The very curious volume to which this passage alludes is entitled " The 

 English Guzman ; or the History of that unparalleled Thief James Hind, 

 written by G(eorge) F(idge)." Lond. 1652, 410. In the King's Tracts in 

 the British Museum. 



Page 129. Caspar Peucerus. 



An eminent physician and mathematician, born at Lusatia, in 1525 : he 

 married the daughter of Melancthon, wrote many books on various sub- 

 jects, and died in 1602, aged seventy-eight. Hawkins. Casaubon quotes 

 him at p. 252 of his book, No. 10 of the foregoing list. The paragraph 

 from which the above line is quoted did not appear as it now stands until 

 the Fifth Edition of Walton. The Hares changing sexes is mentioned by 

 Topsell, see No. 41, p. 266. 



Page 131. Learned Doctor Hakewill. 



Dr. George Hakewill was b*orn-at Exeter in 1579, and was Rector of 

 Exeter College, Oxford ; he died at his living of Heanton in Devonshire, 

 in April, 1649 His book will be found at No. 21 of the list, and the con- 

 tents of the paragraph in the text, which did not appear until the Second 

 Edition of Walton, are from p. 434 of that volume. In Walton's First 

 Edition this part falls in Chap. V., which is entitled, " Some direction to 

 fish for the Trout by night ; and a question whether fish hear ? and lastly, 

 directions how {Q fish for the Umber or Grayling." The titles of 



