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Quotation from The Lives of Richard Hooker, George Herbert and Robert Sanderson by Izaak Walton
“it was the Odes of Horace,--he being then like humble and innocent Abel, tending his small allotment of sheep in a common field”
The Lives of Richard Hooker, George Herbert and Robert Sanderson, Life of Hooker (Project Gutenberg #13139 (Cassell's National Library, 1898))
Hooker's former pupils find him minding sheep at Drayton-Beauchamp while his servant helps at home.
Citation: "it was the Odes of Horace,--he being then like humble and innocent Abel, tending his small allotment of sheep in a common field" — Izaak Walton, The Lives of Richard Hooker, George Herbert and Robert Sanderson, Life of Hooker (Project Gutenberg #13139 (Cassell's National Library, 1898)). (id walton-lives-q1)
Virtues: Humility
Portrait: Izaak Walton, Jacob Huysmans, Public domain.
