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. chap. ii.

_Like Nicholas Poussin’s picture._ See Hazlitt’s Essay ‘On a Landscape by Nicolas Poussin’ in _Table Talk_, vol. VI. p. 168, _et seq._

_Sannazarius’s Piscatory Eclogues._ Iacopo Sannazaro’s (1458–1530) _Piscatory Eclogues_, translated by Rooke, appeared in England in 1726. See _The Round Table_, vol. I. p. 56, ‘On John Buncle,’ for a similar passage on Walton.

99. _A fair and happy milk-maid._ The quotation of the ‘Character’ from Sir Thomas Overbury’s _Wife_ was contributed to the notes to Walton’s _Complete Angler_ by Sir Henry Ellis, editor of Bagster’s edition, 1815. He took it from the twelfth edition, 1627, of Sir Thomas Overbury’s book. The following passages may be added between ‘curfew’ and ‘her breath’ to make the note as quoted perfect:—‘In milking a cow, and straining the teats through her fingers, it seems that so sweet a milk press makes the milk the whiter or sweeter; for never came almond glue or aromatic ointment of her palm to taint it. The golden ears of corn fall and kiss her feet when she reaps them, as if they wished to be bound and led prisoners by the same hand that felled them.’

100. _Two quarto volumes._ John Horne Tooke’s _Diversions of Purley_ was published in two volumes, 4to, in 1786–1805. See _The Spirit of the Age_, vol. IV. p. 231, on ‘The Late Mr. Horne Tooke.’

_The heart of his mystery._ _Hamlet_, III. 2.

_Rousseau in his Confessions ... a little spot of green._ Part I .