THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



George to secure. Within a week after Mr. Barlow himself 

 carried it to Robert Milward, Esq., he being then a prisoner 

 to the Parliament in the garrison of Stafford ; and by his 

 means was it happily preserved and restored, for not long 

 after he delivered it to Mr. Izaak Walton (a man well known 

 and as well beloved of all good men, and will be better 

 known to posterity by his ingenious pen, in the Lives of 

 Dr. Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, and 

 Mr. George Herbert), to be given to Colonel Blogue, then 

 a prisoner in the Tower ; who, considering it had already 

 past so many dangers, was persuaded it could yet secure 

 one hazardous attempt of his own ; and thereupon leaving 

 the Tower, without leave-taking, hasted the presentation 

 of it to the present sovereign's hand." 



Besides the works of Walton above mentioned, there are 

 extant of his writing verses on the death of Dr. Donne, 

 beginning " Our Donne is dead ; " verses to his reverend 

 friend the author of the " Synagogue," printed together 

 with Herbert's "Temple ;" verses before Alexander Browne's 

 poems, octavo, 1646, and before Shirley's poems, octavo, 

 1646, and before Cartwright's plays and poems, Svo., 1651. 



In 1683, when he was ninety years old, Walton published 

 " Thealma and Clearchus, a pastoral history in smooth and 

 easy verse," by John Chalkhill, Esq., an acquaintance and 

 friend of Edmund Spenser, and to this poem he wrote a 

 preface containing a very amiable character of the author. 

 He lived but a very little time after the publication of this 

 poem, for he ended his days on the I5th day of December, 

 1683, in the great frost at Winchester, in the house of Dr. 

 William Hawkins, a prebendary of the church there, where 

 he lies buried. 



