THOMAS KEN AND IZAAK WALTON 39 



I shall refer further on to Walton's death and 

 burial in Part II. 



The next year, full of days, died his long-tried^ 

 and generous, and warm-hearted friend, Morley, 

 1684, aged eighty-seven. Both were buried in the 

 same cathedral. Mr. Bowles pays a tribute to their 

 memory — he speaks of their unvarying friendship, 

 their warm, but unaffected piety. " They were 

 lovely in their lives, and in their deaths they were 

 not divided." 



Returning to Thomas Ken, whom we left a 

 Resident Fellow of Winchester, he was in 1669 

 promoted to the dignity of a prebendal stall in the 

 restored Cathedral Church of Winchester by that 

 generous prelate who so long had been the warm 

 and constant friend of Izaak Walton. He was 

 also presented with the living of East Woodhay, 

 Hampshire, which he resigned after he had held it 

 a little while, under pretence of conscience, thinking 

 he had enough without it. 



About this time he published his " Manual for 

 Winchester Scholars," and it was here that he 

 composed those two beautiful hymns which have 

 kept his name so prominently before the world. 

 They were written to be sung in the chambers of the 

 boys, before chapel in the morning, and before they 



