LIFE OF IZAAC WALTON. 



In the cathedral of Winchester, in a chapel in the south 

 aisle, called Prior Silksteed's Chapel, on a large black flat 

 marble stone, is this inscription to his memory; 



HERE RESTETH THE BODY OF 



MR. IZAAC WALTON 



WHO DYED THE I5TH OF DECEMBER 

 1683 



ALAS ! HE'S GONE BEFORE 

 GONE TO RETURN NO MORE 

 OUR PANTING HEARTS ASPIRE 

 AFTER THEIR AGED SIRE 

 WHOSE WELL-SPENT LIFE DID LA?X 

 FULL NINETY YEARS AND PAST 

 BUT NOW HE HATH BEGUN 

 THAT WHICH WILL NE'ER BE DONE 

 CROWNED WITH ETERNAL BLISS 

 WE WISH OUR SOULS WITH HIS 



VOTIS MODESTIS SIC FL&RUNT LIBERI 



The issue of Walton's marriage were a son named Izaac 

 and a daughter named Anne. 



The foregoing Life is chiefly founded on that written by Hawkins. 



