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He blest him with a cheerful heart. 

 And they with this sharp wit and art. 

 Which he so tempers, as no swain 

 That's loyal, does or should complain. 



DORUS. 



I would fain see him : 



DAMON. 



Go with me, 



Dorus, to yonder broad beech-tree, 

 There we shall meet him and Phillis, 

 Perigot, and Amaryllis, 

 Tityrus, and his dear Chlora, 

 Tom and Will, and their Pastora : 

 There we'll dance, shake hands, and sing 

 We have our Laws, 



God bless the King. 



Iz. Walton.'* 



The third edition of the " Complete Angler " appeared in 1 66 1 ; 

 but the variations between it and the impression of 1655 are not 

 numerous or material. Although Mr Offley, to whom it was 

 dedicated, died in 1658, no notice is taken of the circumstance, 

 which is rather extraordinary, because Walton pathetically alludes 

 to the loss of his fishing companions, the two Roes. In the 

 former editions he spoke of " the days and times when honest Nat 

 and R, R. and I go a-fishing together;" and in 1661 he thus 

 noticed their deaths, " In such days and times as I have laid aside 

 business, and gone a-fishing with honest Nat and R. Roe ; but 

 they are gone, and with them most of my pleasant hours, even 

 as a shadow that passeth away, and returns not." Considerable 

 trouble has been taken to discover some particulars of those 

 persons, who, as Walton's intimate friends, and his companions 

 in the sport for which he is celebrated, have strong claims upon 

 the regard of his disciples. Unfortunately, however, nothing has 

 been found respecting them, except that they appear to have 

 been distantly related to Walton, as he presented one of his books 

 to his " cozen Roe ; " but it may be conjectured that they were 

 brothers, and shopkeepers in London, and it was probably the 

 wife of one of them who was godmother to his son in September 

 1651. 



In the same year, 1661, Walton also wrote some verses on the 

 pubUcation of the fourth edition of a popular religious poem, called 

 " The Synagogue," by the Rev. Christopher Harvie, who had paid 

 a similar compliment to Walton in the second edition of the 

 " Complete Angler," and whose poem on the Book of Common 

 Prayer is introduced into that work, as having been written by " a 



