34O THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



sage is in the sixth chapter of book i., and a translation of it was published 

 in 410, 1599, by George Churchey, Fellow of Lincoln's Inn. lie is said 

 to have died in 1559. Hawkins. The extract from Dubravius is not in 

 Walton's First Edition. 



Page 150. Cardanus. 



Jer )me Cardan, an Italian physician, naturalist, and astrologer, born at 

 Pavia, September 24, 1501, well known by the many works he has pub- 

 lished : he died at Rome on September 21, 1576. It is said that he had 

 foretold the day of his death ; and that, when it approached, he suffered 

 himself to die of hunger to preserve his reputation. He had been in Eng- 

 land, and wrote a character of our Edward VI. Hawkins. 



Page 155. Sir Richard Baker, in whose Chronicle, etc. 



Vide No. 5, p. 428, marginal letter E. It is probable that this rhyme, 

 with all its variations, is historically erroneous. Not in Walton's First 

 Edition. 



Page 156. *T is said by Jovius. 



Paulus Jovius, an Italian historian, of very doubtful authority, was born 

 at Como in 1483. He wrote a small tract De Romanis Piscibus, and he 

 died at Florence in 1552. Hawkins. 



Page 176. Made by Doctor Donne. 



John Donne was born in London about the year 1573, and was educated 

 at Oxford and Cambridge, whence he removed to Lincoln's Inn. He 

 afterwards became secretary to Lord Ellesmere, and privately addressed 

 and married a near relation of his lady's ; which was so highly resented 

 by Sir George Moor, his wife's father, that Donne was dismissed from his 

 situation, and involved in the greatest poverty and distress. About 1614, 

 he was persuaded to enter into holy orders, and he at length obtained the 

 Deanery of St. Paul's ; but his misfortunes had induced a lingering con- 

 sumption, of which he died in 1631. Walton. Dr. Donne's Poems ap- 

 pear at No. 13 of the preceding list, and at p. 190 of that volume are the 

 verses quoted in the text, which are sometimes entitled " The Bait." The 

 word s leave ', on page 176, is from the Icelandic Slefa, fibres of silk, and 

 signifies to untwist ravelled silk. 



Page 179. Venerable Bede. 



The most universal scholar of his time : he was born at Durham about 

 the year 671, and bred under St. John of Beverly. It is said that Pope 

 Sergius I. invited him to Rome, though others say that he never quitted 

 his cell. He was a man of great virtue, and remarkable for a sweet and 

 engaging disposition ; he died in 734, and lies buried at Durham. The 

 passage referred to in the text is in his Ecclesiastical History of the Eng- 

 lish Nation, lib. iv. cap. 19. Matthias del? Obel, who is mentioned in the 

 same page, was an eminent physician and botanist of the sixteenth cen- 



