40 LAUDATO RUM CARMINA. 



Stylo elegant! scrihis en Halieutica 



Oppianus alter, artis et raethodum tuae, et 



Prseeepta prorais rite piscatoria, 



Varias et escas piscium, indolem, et genus. 



Nee tradere artem sat putas piscariam 



(Virtutis est haec et tamen quaedam schola 



Patientiamque et temperantiam docet;) 



Documenta quin majora das, et regulas 



Subliraioris artis, et perennia 



Monimenta morum, vitse et exempla optima ; 



Dura tu profundum scribis Hookerum, et pium 



Donnum ac disertum; sanctum et Herbertum, sacrum 



Vatem ; hos videraus nam penicillo tuo 



Graphice, et perita, Isaace, depictos manu. 



Post fata factos hosce per te Virbios ! * 



O quae voluptas est legere in scriptis tuis ! 



Sic tu libris rios, lineis pisces capis, 



Musisque litterisque dum incumbis, licet 



Intentus hamo, interque piscandum studes. 



ALIUD 



AD ISAACUM WALTONUM, 



VIRUM ET PISCATOREM OPTIMCM. 



ISAACE, Macte hac arte piscatoria ; 

 Hac arte Petrus principi censum dedit; 

 Hac arte princeps nee Petro multo prior, 

 Tranquillus ille, teste Tranquillo,f pater 

 Patriae, solebat recreare se lubens 

 Augustus, hamo instructus ac arundine. 

 Tu mine, Amice, proxknum clari es decus 

 Post Csesarem hami, gentis ac Halieuticae ; 

 Euge, O professor, artis haud ingloriae, 

 Doctor cathedrae, perlegens piscariam ! 

 Nae tu magister, et ego discipulus tuus, 

 Nam candidatum et me ferunt arundinis, 

 Socium hac in arte nobilem nacti suinus. 

 Quid amplius, Waltone, nam dici potest? 

 Ipse hamiota Doniinus en orbis fuit ! 



JACO. DUP. | D. D. 



* " Virbius, quasi big vir," fs an epithet applied to Hippolytus, because he was by Diana 

 restored to life after his death. Vide Ovidii Met. lib. xv. v. 536, ct seq. Hoffmanni " Lexicon 

 Universale," art. Virbius. In this place it is meant to express, that by Walton's skill in bio- 

 graphy, those persons whose lives he has written are RO accurately represented, as that, even 

 after their deaths, they are again, as it were, brought to life. 



1 1. e. Suetonius Tranquillus. 



J The contracting of surnames is a faulty practice ; the above might stand for " Duppa," 

 but signifies " Duport." This person was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Pro- 

 fessor of Greek in that University. His father, John, had a hand in the translation of King 

 James's Bible. Fuller's Ch. Hist, book x. p. 46. Dr James Duport wrote also the Latin 

 verses preceding these ; and both copies are extant in a volume of Latin poems by him, en- 

 titled " Musae Subsecivx," printed at Cambridge, in 8vo. 1676. 



