Excerpt from The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Hebert, and Sanderson, Vol. 1 No one, it is believed, will be disposed to dis pute the claims of Izaak Walton's Lives, to a place in the Library of Old English Prose Writers. They are admitted at an early stage of the series, from the circumstance that these delightful pieces of biography are very little known in this country. Whilst that charming pastoral, The Complete Angler, is familiar to every one who pretends to any acquaintance with old English literature, the Lives are in com paratively few hands. The Editor will consider himself amply compensated for any care he may have expended upon the publication of these vol umes, if thereby he shall contribute in any de gree to their being more widely known and more justly appreciated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.