Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Clare Boothby and PG Distributed Proofreaders Waltoniana INEDITED REMAINS IN VERSE AND PROSE OF IZAAK WALTON AUTHOR OF THE COMPLETE ANGLER _WITH NOTES AND PREFACE_ BY RICHARD HERNE SHEPHERD LONDON 1878 CONTENTS. 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. PREFACE. Few men who have written books have been able to win so large a share of the 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 the gentlest and tenderest spirits of the seventeenth century," we all know his dear old face, with its cheerful, happy, serene look, and we should all have liked to accompany him on one of those angling excursions from Tottenham 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 churchmen with whose friendship he was favoured in youth, and teaching his young brother-in-law, Thomas Ken, to walk in their saintly footsteps,--now busy with his rod and line, or walking and talking with a friend, staying now and then to quaff an honest glass at a wayside ale-house--leading a simple, cheerful, blameless life "Thro' near a century of pleasant years."[1]