28 THOMAS KEN AND IZAAK WALTON 



or Dove, musing on the olden times, he re- 

 turned at evening to the humble home of 

 love, to the evening hymn of his wife, to his 

 infant daughter, afterwards wife of Dr. Hawkins 

 — to his Bible — and to the consolation of his 

 proscribed Prayer-Book." 



It was here, according to the Bowles' tradition, 

 that Morley found refuge in the days of his dis- 

 tress ; here he resided the year before he left 

 England. 



" He sojourned," says Bowles, " in that 

 peaceful but humble abode twelve months, 

 and to that cottage of affectionate friendship 

 he returned after the execution of Lord Capel, 

 for a few weeks, we may imagine, till he left 

 England, to partake exile and adversity with 

 his new master, the son of the murdered 

 Charles." 



Walton's dedication of his " Life of Dr. Sander- 

 son " to George Morley, in which he speaks of his 

 " friendship begun nearly forty years past," is a 

 sufficient refutation of the suggestion that Walton 

 never knew Morley intimately. 



Mr. Bowles — having in mind Walton and Cotton's 



