LONDON: AND SAMPSON LOW, SON, AND CO. LUDGATE HILL. 1864. 200 u. 38. 210. g. George Herbert; and with his the Life of Dr. Donne, and your friend Sir Henry Wotton, all reprinted. The two first were written under your roof; for which reason, if they were worth it, you might justly challenge a Dedication. And, indeed, so you might of Dr. Donne's, and Sir Henry Wotton's: because, if I had been fit for this undertaking, it would not have been by acquired learning or study, but by the advantage of forty years' friendship, and thereby, with hearing and discoursing with your Lordship, that hath enabled me to make the relation of these Lives passable-if they prove so-in an eloquent and captious age. And indeed, my Lord, though these relations be well-meant sacrifices to the memory of these worthy men; yet I have so little confidence in my performance, that I beg pardon for superscribing your name to them; and desire all that know your Lordship, to apprehend this not as a Dedication-at least by which you receive any addition of honour-but rather as an humble, and more public acknowledgement, of your long-continued, and your now daily favours to My Lord, Your most affectionate, and most humble servant IZAAK WALTON. Church of England twice every day, catechized once a week, and administered the Communion once a month, to all the English in the town who could come to it; regularly and strictly observing all the parochial duties of a clergyman, as he did afterwards at Breda for four years together. He died in 1684. |