LAUDATORUM CARMINA. 



Piscator, idem & scriptor ; & calami potens 



Utriusque necdum & ictus, & tamen sapis. 



Ut hamiotam nempe tironem instmas ! 



Stylo eleganti scribis en Halieutica 



Oppianus alter, artis & methodum tuae, & 



Praecepta promis rite piscatoria, 



Varias & escas piscium, indolem, & genus. 



Nee tradere artem sat putas piscariam ; 



(Virtutis est heec & tamen queedam schola 



Patientiamque & temperantiam docet ;) 



Documenta quin majora das, & regulas 



Sublimioris artis, & perennia 



Monimenta morum, vitae & exempla optima; 



Dum tu profundum scribis Hookerum, & pium 



Donnum ac disertum; sanctum & Herbertum, sacrum 



Vatem ; hos videmus nam penicillo tuo 



Graphice, et perita, Isaace, depictos manu. 



Post fata factOB hosce per te Virbios. 1 



O quee voluptas est legere in scriptis tuis ! 



Sic tu libris nos, lineis pisces capis, 



Musisque litterisque dum incumbis, licet 



Intentus hamo, interque piscandum studes. 



(1) " Virbius, quasi bis rtr," is an epithet applied to Hippolytus, because he 

 was by Diana restored to life after his death. Vide Ovidii Met. lib. xv. v. 536, 

 fyseq. Hoffmanni Lexicon UnivertaU, art. VIRBIUS. In this place it is 

 meant to express, that by Watton't skill in biography, those persons whose lives 

 he has written, are so accurately represented, as that, even afcer their deaths, 

 they are again, as it were, brought to life. 



