THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 341 



tury, and was a native of L'Isle in Flanders. He was a disciple of Ron- 

 deletius, and was invited to London by King James I. He died in 1616. 

 The book from which the text is quoted is No. 31 in the foregoing list. 

 John Gerard, who is also cited with L'Obel, was a surgeon in London, 

 and one of the most celebrated of English botanists ; he was born at 

 Namptwich in Cheshire, in 1545. His Herbal, mentioned in the text, is 

 No. 17 in the list of authorities, and the passage referred to is in lib. 3, p. 

 1587, chap. 171, which is entitled "Of the Goose tree, Barnacle tree, or 

 the Tree bearing Geese " : of this there is a curious woodcut. Hawkins. 

 The passages from Lord Bacon, quoted on p. 179, are at p. 71, Nos. 46, 

 44, of his History, &c. ; those from Dr. Hakewill are in lib. iv. sect. 6, 

 pp. 433, 434, of his Apology. The reference to Camden, on page 184, 

 will be found on page 666 of his Britannia. 



Page 1 86. Gasius. 



Antonio Gazius of Padua, the author of the "Corona Florida Medi- 

 cinse," which he published at Venice in 1491, in folio, at the age of twenty- 

 eight. He died in 1530. His name does not appear in Walton's First 

 Edition. 



Page 1 88. Doctor Sheldon. 



Dr. Gilbert Sheldon, Warden of All-Souls College, Chaplain to King 

 Charles I., and, after the Restoration, Archbishop of Canterbury. He 

 was born July 19, 1598, at Stanton in Staffordshire. He founded the 

 Theatre at Oxford, died in 1677, and lies buried under a stately monu- 

 ment at Croydon in Surrey. Hawkins. This passage is not in Walton's 

 First Edition, and the Second reads, " Doctor Sh." 



Page 197. Of which Diodoriis speaks. 



Diodorus, surnamed Siculus, because his birthplace was Argyra in 

 Sicily, was an excellent historian, who flourished about 44 years B. C. Of 

 his History of Egypt, Persia, Syria, etc. , there are only fifteen books re- 

 maining, but it originally consisted of forty : it was the work of thirty 

 years, although the greatest part of it is a compilation. The passage men- 

 tioned in the text is in book v. ch. i. 



Page 197. Phineas Fletcher. 



The son of Giles Fletcher, LL. D., and Ambassador from Queen 

 Elizabeth to the Duke of Muscovy. He is said to have been born about 

 1584, and in 1600 he became Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. In 

 1633 he was known as the author of a fine allegorical poem, entitled " The 

 Purple Island," which was printed at Cambridge, with others of his works. 

 He died about 1650. Hawkins. 



Page 198. You tnusf sing a part of it. 



These verses were composed for two voices, a treble and a bass, by the 

 very celebrated Henry Lawes, most probably at Walton's request, and 



