134 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



by Chapman. The song here mentioned is printed, with his name 

 to it, in a collection entitled "England's Helicon," 4to., 1600, as 

 is also the Answer, here said to be written by Sir Walter Raleigh, 

 but there subscribed " Ignoto." Of Marlow it is said that he was 

 the author of divers atheistical and blasphemous discourses ; and 

 that in a quarrel with a servingman, his rival in a connection with 

 a lewd woman, he received a stab with a dagger, and shortly after 

 died of the stroke. See Wood's " Athen. Oxon.," vol. i. 338, and 

 also Beard's " Theatre of God's Judgments." H. 



8 Dr. Warburton, in his notes on " The Merry Wives of Windsor," 

 ascribes this song to Shakspeare. It is true that Sir Hugh Evans, 

 in the third act of that play, sings four lines of it ; and it occurs in 

 a collection of poems said to be Shakspeare's, printed by Thomas 

 Cotes for John Benson, i2mo., 1640, with some variations. On 

 the contrary, it is to be found with the name of Christopher Marlow 

 to it in "England's Helicon;" and Walton has just said (p. 128) 

 it was made by Kit Marlow. The reader will judge of these 

 evidences as he pleases. As to the song itself, though a beautiful 

 one, it is not so purely pastoral as it is generally thought to be ; 

 buckles vigold, coral clasps and amber studs, silver dishes and ivory 

 tables, are luxuries, and consist not with the parsimony and sim- 

 plicity of rural life and manners. H. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



1 The samlet is now proved to be the young of salmon. See 

 essay on salmon, post. 



z In the following paragraphs Walton is greatly mistaken in his 



