APPENDIX TO THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 275 



But tell me first, for you or none can tell, 

 What God the mighty Science did reveal ? 

 For sure a God he was ; less than Divine 

 Could Blessings richer than the raciest Wine 

 Enlarge our Hearts, or strengthen his Design? 

 _ A God he was then, or at least to me ; 

 And, my Associates, such he ought tote. 

 He taught us first the Grandeur of the Court ; 

 Contemn'd and scom'd for this, to choose a Sport 

 Full of Content, and crown'd with healthful Ease* 

 Where Nature frets not, while ourselves ve please, , 



P. 35. In a poem by W. Vallans, entitled " A Tale of Two Swannes," 

 printed in 1590^ are these .verses descriptive of Theobalds : — 



* Thebalds, Now see these Swaiines, the new and worthie seate * 



Of famous Cicill, tresorer of the land, 

 Whose wisedome, coiinsell, skill of princes state, 

 The world admires ; then Swannes may doe the same : 

 The house it selfe doth shewe the owners wit^ 

 And may for bewtie, state, and every thing, 

 Compared be with most within the land- 

 It may here be remarked, that the view of the exterior of Theobalds, 

 which will be found at page 180 of this work, from a picture by Vinken- 

 boom, now in the Fitzwilliam Collection at Cambridge, was engraved in 

 the second volume af the Vetusta Monumenta, where it is called a view of 

 Richmond Palace. The following statement on the subject occurs in the 

 Gentleman's Magazine for September 1836 ; " There is a folio plate of it, 

 engraved at the expense of the Society of Antiquaries in the year 1765, but 

 under the misnomer of Richmond Palace, a very extraordinaiy instance of 

 carelessness and want of research, as there are two old views in existence 

 of Richmond Palace, showing that its architecture was totally different in 

 style to that of Theobalds. The original painting was then * in the posses- 

 sion of Lord Viscount Fitzwilliam at Richmond,' a circumstance which 

 natui"ally led to the misnomer with inconsiderate persons/' As the Vetusta 

 Monumenta is published by the Society of Antiquaries of London, the 

 blunder, however striking, surely cannot be considered extraordinary^ 



P. 42. Tradescant's House is now the residence of William Heseltine, 

 Esq. 



P. 54* The following verses, ascribed to Sir Henry Wottan, which occur 

 in Clifford's ** Tixall Poetry," p. 297, bear so. much resemblance, in beauty 

 and simplicity, to many of the pieces alluded to by Walton,, that their 

 insertion needs no apology :^ 



RUSTICATIO RELIGIOSI IN VACANTIIS, 



QurvERiNG feares, heart-tearing cares, Or the pure azure heave-n, that smiles to 

 Anxious sighes, untimely teares, ^. see 



Fly, fly to courts, The rich attendance of our poverty ; 



Fly to find worldly harts ; Peace, and a secure mind, 



Where strain'd sardonick smiles are gloss- Which all men seeke, we only find. 



Andgriefel^forc'dtoIaughagamsthiswiU; Abused mortals, did you know 



Where mirth is but mimmery, Where joy, harts ease and comforts grow, 



A„j ^«„ ^ i„ «^u 1,- You d scome proud towers. 



And sorrows only Kail be. ^^ ^^^^ ^^^ i_^ ,^_^^^ \i,^tr^, 



Fly from our country pastime, fly, Where winds sometimes our woods perhaps 



Sad troopes of humane misery. may shake. 



Come, serened lookes, But blustering Care can never tempest 



Cleare as these crlstall brookes, make ; 



