Morley. Say no more, good and kind friend, if you love me. The desolate widow of the brave Lord Capel has taken care I shall not be destitute. Piscator.-Then but one wish remains, in which, for our friendship of old, you will gratify me. Kenna shall put her babe to rest, and dress this last meal of contentedness, the TROUT, with such directions as I have given then you shall read our prayers, for the last time, it may be - and then, Almighty God be with you wheresoever your journey lies in this wide world, and grant that we may yet, in some still time, come together again, where peace and happiness shall be with us to our life's end, and till we lay our burthens down in peace! They part. MORLEY'S FAREWELL TO THE COTTAGE OF ISAAK WALTON, 1649. TO KENNA. England, a long farewell! a long farewell, My Country, to thy woods, and streams, and hills, Far from my native land, from sights of woe, * He returned to Walton's cottage from the scene of execution of his brave friend Lord Capel. Sad, in a land of strangers, when I bend And thee, dear friend! till my heart's beatings cease. And we, old friend! though bow'd with age, sur vive How happy, whilst our days on earth shall last, Till on our various way the night shall close, repose. * Anne, born 1677, and mother of William Hawkins. + Walton died 1683, aged ninety; Morley the year after, 1684, aged 87. They are buried in the same cathedral. Let the curtain now draw up, and behold the same characters, unchanged, in an illustrious sphere, and with splendid associations. Behold Morley "my Lord of Winton," in his Episcopal palace Isaak Walton's daughter Anne, an infant in the Staffordshire cottage, a young woman of nineteen * the son, Isaac Walton, junior, returned from Oxford. Poor Kenna is buried in peace, in Worcester Cathedral - her brother, the son of the attorney of Furnival's Inn, late the "poor scholar" of Wykeham's college, has been just elected Fellowold Isaak himself, seeing his children, like Job, after his trials, in prosperity and happiness around him, tranquilly through the summer morning is seen angling in the Itchin! His room is furnished with his own books, in the palace. There he lived a beloved and honoured guest, with mild and lighted countenance, snow-white locks, a thankful, but humble heart with piety as sincere as unostentatious - till he closed his eyes on all the "changes and chances "of his mortal life, at ninety years of age. Afterwards married to William Hawkins, Prebendary, father of Hawkins, Ken's biographer. † Afterwards Canon of Salisbury. *** In the Angler we find two poems addressed to Isaak Walton, by John Floud, M A. and Robert Floud, both of whom style I. W. their dear brother. It is not generally known who was the first wife of Isaac Walton, but her name was Rachel. I have been favoured with the present pedigree. Archbishop Cranmer. Edmund Cranmer, Archdeacon .... of Canterbury. Thomas Cranmer, Gent. of St. Mildred's, Canterbury.. Susanna.—........ Floud. .... John Floud, M.A. Robert Floud. .... Floud. Isaak Walton. Since the three first sheets were printed off, I have received from C. G. Young, Esq. York Herald, a full account of all Thomas Ken's children, which entirely agrees with what I suggested, that the Bishop of Bath and Wells was youngest son of the first wife. All, except Thomas, the youngest, were baptized at St. Giles, Cripplegate. Christened. 1626, Jan. 1. John, son of Thomas Kenn, Gent. 1628, June 28. Martha, daughter of Mr. Thomas Kenne, Gent. [Anne, Mrs. Walton, not baptized at Cripplegate ] 1639, Dec. 7. Mary, daughter of Thomas Ken, Gent. |