THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 343 



they are to be found at p. 62 of a volume entitled " Select Ayres and Dia- 

 logues for One, Two, and Three Voyces ; to the Theorbo-Lvte, and Basse- 

 Viol. Composed by John Wilson and Charles Coleman, Doctors in Music, 

 Henry Lawes," etc. Lond. 1659, fol. It occurs in the First Edition of 

 Walton. The verses in praise of Music are also in the First Edition of 

 Walton, and are taken from the end of the same book of songs, where 

 they are signed W. D., Knight, meaning perhaps Sir William Davenant. 

 If aw kins. 



An harmonized version of Lawe's composition is given on the preceding 

 page. 



Page 205. Like the Rosicrucians. 



The title of the Rosycrucians, or the Brothers of the Rosy-Cross, was first 

 assumed by a sect of Hermetic Philosophers in Germany, about the com- 

 mencement of the fourteenth century. They professed to have a knowl- 

 ledge of all the occult sciences, as the making of gold, the prolongation 

 of human life, the restoration of youth, from which they were also called 

 Immortales, and the formation of the philosopher's stone ; but all these 

 secrets they were bound by a solemn oath to reveal only to the members 

 of their own fraternity, and it is to this custom, in particular, that Walton 

 alludes. Their founder was a German gentleman, named Christian Crux, 

 who had travelled to Palestine, where, falling sick, lie was cured by 

 Arabian physicians, who, he asserted, revealed to him their mysterious 

 arts. He died in 1484 ; and the name of his society was composed of the 

 word Ros, Dew, and his own name, Crux, a Cross, the old chemical 

 character for light. Mosheim. Gassendi. Renaudot. Bmcker. 



Page 206. Either to Mr. Margrave, etc. 



There is printed upon the reverse of the last leaf of Cotton's Second 

 Part of the Complete Angler, Edit. 1676, the following memorandum con- 

 cerning this person : " Cotirteous Reader. You may be pleas'd to take 

 notice, that at the Sign of the Three Trouts in St. Paul's Church-Yard, on 

 the North side, you may be fitted with all sorts of the best Fishing-Tackle, 

 by John Margrave" 



The four earlier editions of Walton read, " I will go with you either to 

 Charles Brandon's (neer to the Swan in Golding Lane) ; or to Mr. Fletch- 

 er's, in the Court which did once belong to Dr. Nowel, the Dean of St. 

 Paul's, that I told you was a good man and a good Fisher ; it is hard by 

 the West end of St. Paul's Church; they be both," etc. Viator selects 

 Charles Brandon. This is in the last chapter of the First Edition. The 

 note on the value of an Angler's tackle did not appear until the Second 

 Edition. 



Page 212. Matthiolus commends him. 



Petrus Andreas Matthiolus was born at Sienna in Tuscany, in 1501. 



