LIFE OF IZAAK WALTO5T. 23 



after the year 1719, Mr Fulman's papers came to the hands of 

 Mr Des Maizeaux, who intended in some way or other to 

 avail himself of them ; but he never published a second edition 

 of his Life of Hales ; nor, for aught that 1 can hear, have they 

 ever yet found their way into the world. 



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

 " Thealma and Clearchus ; a pastoral history, in smooth and 

 easy verse, written long since by John Chalkhill, Esq. an 

 acquaintance and friend of Edmund Spenser." 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, as Wood says, he ended his days on the fifteenth 

 day of December, 1 683, in the great frost, at Winchester, in 

 the house of Dr William Hawkins, a prebendary of the church 

 there, where he lies buried.* 



In the cathedral of Winchester, viz. 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 ; the poetry 

 whereof has very little to recommend it : 



HERE RESTETH THE BODY OF 



MR ISAAC WALTON, 



WHO DTED THE FIFTEENTH OF DECEMBER, 

 1683. 



Alas ! he 's gone before, 

 Gone to return no more. 

 Our panting breasts aspire 

 After their aged sire, 

 Whose well spent life did last 

 Full ninety years and past : 

 But now he hath begun 

 That which will ne'er be done. 

 Crown'd with eternal bliss, 

 We wish our souls with his. 

 Votis modestis sicflerujit Uteri. 



The issue of Walton's marriage were, a son, named Isaac, 

 and a daughter, named, after her mother, Anne. This son 

 was placed in Christ Church College, Oxford ; f and, having 

 taken his degree of bachelor of arts, travelled, together with 

 his uncle, Mr (afterward bishop) Ken, in the year 1674, being 

 the year of the jubilee, into France and Italy and, as Cotton 

 says, visited Rome and Venice. Of this son, mention is made 



* Athen. Oxen. vol. i. col. 305. 



f Vide part ii. chap. vi. Athen. Oxon. vol. ii. 9S9; Bioyr. Brit. 

 art. Ken. 



