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CHALKHILL, JOHN (fl. r600?)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 807 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHALKHILL, See also:JOHN (fl. r600?) , See also:English poet. Two songs by him are included in Izaak See also:Walton's Compleat See also:Angler, and in 1683 appeared "Thealma and See also:Clearchus. A See also:Pastoral See also:History in smooth and easie See also:Verse. Written See also:long since by John Chalkhill, Esq., an Acquaintant and Friend of See also:Edmund See also:Spencer " (1683), with a See also:preface written five years earlier by Walton. Another poem, " Alcilia, Philoparthens Loving Follie " (1595, reprinted in vol. x. of the Jahrbuch See also:des deutschen See also:Shakespeare- Vereins), was at one See also:time attributed to him. Nothing further is known of the poet, but a See also:person of his name occurs as one of the coroners for See also:Middlesex in the later years of See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth's reign. See also:Professor See also:Saintsbury, who included Thealma and Clearchus in vol. ii. of his See also:Minor Poets of the See also:Caroline See also:Period (See also:Oxford, 1906), points out a marked resemblance between his See also:work and that of See also:William See also:Chamberlayne.

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