LIFE OF WALTON. 21 



the genuine spirit of benevolence and candour, is not altogether 

 inapplicable to more recent times ; and it has been reprinted as 

 lately as 1795. 



Besides the works of Walton above-mentioned, there are 

 extant of, of his writing, verses on the death of Dr. Donne, 

 beginning, " Our Donne is dead ; " verses to his reverend friend 

 the author of the " Synagogue," printed together with Herbert's 

 " Temple ; " verses before " Alexander Brome's Poems," octavo, 

 1646, and before " Shirley's Poems," octavo 1646, and before 

 " Cartwright's Plays and Poems," octavo, 1651. He wrote also 

 the following lines under an engraving of Dr. Donne, before his 

 " Poems," published in 1635. 



This was for youth, strength, mirth, and wit that time 



Most count their golden age ; * but was not thine : 



Thine was, thy later years ; so much refined 



From youth's dross, mirth, and wit, as thy pure mind 



Thought (like the angels) nothing but the praise 



Of thy Creator, in those last, best days, 



Witness this book, (thy emblem, ) which, begins 

 With love ; but ends with sighs and tears for sins, 



Dr. Henry King, Bishop of Chichester in a letter to Walton 

 dated in November, 1664, and in which is contained the judg- 

 ment of Hales, of Eton, on the "Life of Dr. Donne," says 

 that Walton had, in the " Life of Hooker,'" given a more 

 short and significant account of the character of his time, 

 and also of " Archbishop Whitgift," than he had received 

 from any other pen, and that he had also done much for Sir 

 Henry Savile, his contemporary and familiar friend ; which 

 fact does very well connect with what the late Mr. Des 

 Maizeaux, some years since, related to a gentleman now deceased, 2 

 from whom I had it, viz., that there were then several letters 

 of Walton extant, in the Ashmolean Museum, relating to a 

 " Life of Sir Henry Savile," which Walton had entertained 

 thoughts of writing. 



I also find, that he undertook to collect materials for a " Life 

 of Hales." It seems, that Mr. Anthony Farringdon, minister of 

 St. Mary Magdalen, Milk-street, London, had begun to wr : te the 

 life of this memorable person ; but dying before he had com- 

 pleted it, his papers were sent to Walton, with a request from 



1 Alluding to his age, viz. eighteen ; when the picture was painted from 

 which the print was taken. H. 



2 William Oldys, Esq. Norroy king-at-arms ; Author of the "Life of 

 Mr. Cotton," prefixed to the Second Part, in the former editions of this 

 work. H. 



