46 THOMAS KEN AND IZAAK WALTON 



On his elevation Ken wrote in Dedication of his 

 Hymns to Hooper— 



"Among the herdsmen I, a common swain, 

 Liv'd pleas'd with my low cottage on the plain ; 

 Till up, like Amos, on a sudden caught, 

 I to the pastoral chair was trembling brought.'' 



NEAR MEDMENHAM ABBEY ON THAMES 



