34 THOMAS KEN AND IZAAK WALTON 



Latin quotations of which he patronisingly says, 

 "Your early studies, my friend, not being 'as 

 classical as my own,' might still enable you to 

 answer ! " 



PiSCATOR says — Good Master Morley, if we must 

 part this night, hear me now, and Kenna will join 

 me in this my entreaty. I have this morning in 

 the River Trent, where I pursued my contemplative 

 recreation, hooked a fine trotit. . . . Kenna shall 

 put her babe to rest, and dress this last meal of 

 contentedness, the TROUT, with such directions 

 as I have given — then you shall read our prayers, 

 for the last time it may be — and then Almighty 

 God be with you wheresoever your journey lies 

 in this wide world, and grant that we may yet, in 

 some still time, come together again where peace 

 and happiness shall be with us to our life's end, 

 and till we lay our burdens down in peace ! 



[They part. 



Morley's Farewell 



To the cottage of Izaak Walton, 1649 



To Kenna 



The following is given as though written by 

 Morley himself, and there is nothing to show that 

 it was not written by him, yet I cannot help 



