138 THOMAS KEN AND IZAAK WALTON 



the edition of 1661 he says, " In such days and 

 times as I have laid aside business and gone a-fish- 

 ing with honest Nat. and R. Roe ; and they are 

 gone, and with them most of my plesisant hours, 

 even as a shadow that passeth away and returns 

 not." 



After the loss of his second wife in 1662, Walton 

 seems to have become an unsettled wanderer. His 

 old friend Dr. Morley, whom he and his wife 

 had visited at Worcester, was now translated to 

 Winchester. It was at this time that the good 

 Bishop invited him to spend the remainder of his 

 days in the Episcopal residence.^ Here his time 

 was happily occupied either in writing those de- 

 lightful biographies of Great Divines (to which I 

 will refer again), or, a^ a matter of course, fishing 

 in the Itchen and other prolific trout streams near 

 Winchester. 



Although it is quite evident that Walton had 

 left London for good in 1662, he does not appear 



1 Dr. Zouch says, " Walton and his daughter had apart- 

 ments constantly reserved for them in the houses of Dr. 

 Morley, Bishop of Winchester, and Dr. Ward, Bishop. of 

 Salisbury." Walton's real home in Winchester was with 

 his daughter, wife of Dr. Hawkins, in the Canon's house 

 near to the one occupied by Ken, where he died. The 

 Episcopal residence was not completed till after Walton's 

 death. 



