John Chalkhill (
fl. 1600?) was an
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.
Two songs by him are included in
Izaak Walton's ''Compleat Angler'', and in 1683 appeared ''Thealma and Clearchus. A Pastoral History in smooth and easie Verse. Written long since by John Chalkhill, Esq., an Acquaintant and Friend of
Edmund Spencer'' (1683), with a preface written five years earlier by Walton.
Another poem, ''Aldilia, Philoparthens Loving Follie'' (1595, reprinted in vol. X of the ''Jahrbuch des deutschen Shakespeare-Vereins''), was at one time attributed to him. Nothing further is known of the poet, but a person with the same name is recorded as one of the coroners for
Middlesex
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in the later years of
Elizabeth I
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's reign.
, who included ''Thealma and Clearchus'' in vol. II of his ''Minor Poets of the Caroline Period'' (Oxford, 1906), points out a marked resemblance between Chalkhill's work and that of
William Chamberlayne.
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