OF

DR. JOHN DONNE, SIR HENRY WOTTON,
RICHARD HOOKER, GEORGE HERBERT,

AND DR. ROBERT SANDERSON.

BY

IZAAK WALTON:

WITH

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR AND HIS WRITINGS,

BY THOMAS ZOUCH, D.D., F. L. S.,

PREBENDARY OF DURHAM.

These were honourable men in their generations.- Ecclus. xliv. 7.

NEW EDITION, WITH ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES, COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME.

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MDCCC LX.

There are no colours in the fairest sky,
So fair as these : the feather whence the pen
Was shaped, that traced the lives of these good men
Dropt from an angels wing : with moistened eye,
We read of faith, and purest charity,
In Statesmen, Priest, and humble Citizen.
Oh! could we copy their mild virtues, then
What joy to live, what blessedness to die !
Methinks their very names shine still and bright,
Apart-like glow-worms on a summer night;
Or lonely tapers when from far they fling
A guiding ray; or seen-like stars on high,
Satellites burning in a lucid ring,
Around meek Walton's heavenly memory!

WORDSWORTH.