MEMOIR OF WALTON. cxlv 



before she wood shew it to any that knew either him or herselfe, she writ 

 underneth it, this which she ment to be an Apologie for her under- 

 taliing it. 



Though by a sudden and tinfeard surprize, 



'i'hou lately taken wast from thy friends' eies : 



Even in that instant^ when they had design'd 



To keipe thee by thy picture still in minde : 



Least thou like others lost in deth's dark night 



Shouldst stealing hence vanish quite out of sight ; 



I did contend with greater zeale then art, 



This shadow of my phansie to impart : 



Which all shood pardon, when they understand 



The lines were figut'd by a woman's hand. 



Who had noe copy to be guided by 



But Hales imprinted in her memory- 

 Thus ill cut Brasses serve uppon a grave. 

 Which less resemblance of the persons have. 



You may take notice that she is a most generous and ingenious Lady. 

 Greater friendship 'twixt her and Mr Ha. she has told me he told her he 

 had liv'd 14 days with bere and bred and tosts, in order to try how litell 

 would keepe him if he were sequestered. She told me he would eate very 

 fully at a diner, and of the strongest or coarsest of the mete rather than 

 the finest. 



She told me he was never out of Humour but always even, and humble, 

 and quiet, never disturbed by any news, or any losse or any thing that 

 concerned the world, but much affected if his friends were in want or sick. 



At his being at Rickkings towards his later end when he was alone he 

 was usually reading Tho. k Kempis, which of a small print he read without 

 speck tacels. 



He kept his opinions to himself especially towards his later part of his 

 life : and would often say there was plainness in all necessary trewthi!. 



He was Bowser about that time when in the contest began betwixt the 

 King and Parliament (and) boeth armies had sequestered the College rents : 

 so that he could not get money to pay wages to the servants, or for victuals 

 for the schoUers. But after 9 weekes hiding himselfe to preserve the 

 college writings and keyes, he was forc'd to appere, at the end of which 

 time, the old woman that conceal'd him demanded but dd. a weeke for his 

 browne bread and bere, which was all his meate, and he wood give her 

 I2d. His concealment was so nere the Cottage or Highway, that he said 

 after, pleasantly, those that searched for him might have smelt him, if he 

 had eaten garlick. 



This was told me by Mrs Powney, from whome Mr Montague it may be, 

 had (it ?) more perfectly. 



He lived 5 yeares after he was sequestered. He dyed the 19th of May, 

 Anno — q — , Mrs Powny, and was by his owne comand buried next dayin the 

 Church yeard. He had a monument made for him (by some friend) w'='' is 

 now in Eaton church yard. 



He was not good at any continuance to get or save money for himselfe ; 

 yet he undertook to do it for Sir H. Wotton, who was a neglector of 

 mony, and Mr Ha. told me he had got ;^30O together at the time of his 

 deth, a some to which Sir H. had long been a stranger, and would ever have 

 been if he had managed his owne money-business. It was happily got 

 together to bury him, and inable him to doe some offices of honor, and 

 justice, and gratitude, and charitie. 



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