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Waltoniana
LONDON
1878
1633. I. An Elegie upon Dr. Donne.
1635. II. Lines on a Portrait of Donne.
1638. III. Commendatory Verses prefixed to The Merchants Mappe of
Commerce.
1645. IV. Preface to Quarles' Shepherds Oracles.
1650. V. Couplet on Dr. Richard Sibbes.
1651. VI. Dedication of Reliquiae Wottonianae.
VII. On the Death of William Cartwright.
1652. VIII. Preface to Sir John Skeffington's Heroe of Lorenzo.
IX. Commendatory Verses to the Author of Scintillula Altaris.
1658. X. Dedication of the Life of Donne and Advertisement to the
Reader.
1660. XI. Daman and Dorus: An humble Eglog.
1661. XII. To my Reverend Friend the Author of The Synagogue.
1662. XIII. Epitaph on his Second Wife, Anne Ken.
1670. XIV. Letter to Edward Ward.
1672. XV. Dedication of the Third Edition of Reliquiae Wottonianae.
1673. XVI. Letter to Marriott.
1678. XVII. Preface &c. to Thealma & Clearchus.
1680. XVIII. Letter to John Aubrey.
1683. XIX. Izaak Walton's Last Will and Testament.
Few men who have written books have been able to win so large a share ofthe personal affection of their readers as honest Izaak Walton has done,and few books are laid down with so genuine a feeling of regret as the"Complete Angler" certainly is, that they are no longer. "One of thegentlest and tenderest spirits of the seventeenth century," we all knowhis dear old face, with its cheerful, happy, serene look, and we shouldall have liked to accompany him on one of those angling excursions fromTottenham High Cross, and to have listened to the quaint, garrulous,sportive talk, the outcome of a religion which was like his homely garb,not too good for every-day wear. We see him, now diligent in his business,now commemorating the virtues of that cluster of scholars and churchmenwith whose friendship he was favoured in youth, and teaching his youngbrother-in-law, Thomas Ken, to walk in their saintly footsteps,—nowbusy with his rod and line, or walking and talking with a friend, stayingnow and then to quaff an honest glass at a wayside ale-house—leading asimple, cheerful, blameless life
"Thro' near a century of pleasant years."[1]
We have said that the reader regrets that Walton should have left solittle behind him: his "Angler" and his Lives are all that is known tomost. But we are now enabled to present those who love his memory witha collection of fugitive pieces, in verse and prose, extending in dateof composition over a period of fifty years,—beginning with the Elegyon Donne, in 1633, and terminating only with his death in 1683. All these,however unambitious, are more or less characteristic of the man, andimpregnated with the same spirit of genial piety that distinguishes thetwo well-known books to which they form a supplement.
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