Waltoniana: Inedited Remains in Verse and Prose of Izaak Walton

by Izaak Walton

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COUPLET ON DR. RICHARD SIBBES.

1650.

[Written by Izaak Walton in his copy of Dr. Richard Sibbes's work, The
Returning Backslider, 4'10., 1650, preserved in the Cathedral Library,
Salisbury. See Sir Harris Nicolas' Memoir of Walton, clv.]

Of this blest man let this just praise be given,
Heaven was in him, before he was in heaven.
IZAAK WALTON.

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DEDICATION OF RELIQUIAE WOTTONIANAE.

1651.

[Reliquiae Wottonianae, or, a Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems; with
Characters of Sundry Personages: and other Incomparable Pieces of Language
and Art. By The curious Pensil of the Ever Memorable Sr. Henry Wotton,
Kt., Late, Provost of Eton Colledg. London, Printed by Thomas Maxey, for
R. Marriot, G. Bedel, and T. Garthwait. 1651.]

To the Right Honourable The Lady Mary Wotton Baronness, and to her Three Noble Daughters.