42 COMMENDATORY YERSES. 



Patrise, solebat recreare se lubens 

 Augustus, hamo instructus ac arundine. 

 Tu nunc, amice, proximum clari es decus 

 Post Csesarem hami, gentis ac Halieuticae : 

 Euge professor artis baud inglorice, 

 Doctor cathedrae, perlegens piscariam ! 

 Nae tu magister, et ego discipulus tuus, 

 Naua candidatum et me ferunt arundinis, 

 Socium hac in arte nobilem nacti sumus. 

 Quid amplius, Waltone, nam dici potest ? 

 Ipse bamiota Dominus en orbis fuit ! 



JACO. DUP. D.D. 1 



1 James Duport, S.T.P., Master of Magdalen College, Cambridge, 

 in 1668, and Dean of Peterborough, July, 1664. He wrote the 

 above commendatory verses, as well as those on the preceding page, 

 and, as we are informed by Walton, in his "Life of Herbert," 

 collected and published Herbert's poems. Several other of these 

 poems are contained in Walton's "Life of Herbert," and all of them 

 are printed in his "MusseSubsecivse" (small 8 vo. Cambridge, 1676). 

 But the work by which he is best known is his " Homeri Grnomo- 

 logia" (small 4to. Cant. 1660) ; which, according to Gibbon, "that 

 tasteless pedant, the Abbe de Longuerve, said was superior to 

 Homer himself." Dean Duport was son of John Duport, whom 

 we are told by Fuller ("Church Hist." lib. x.) assisted in the 

 translation of King James's Bible. ED. 



