JOHN CHALKHILL (fl. r600?)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V05,
Page 807
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
JOHN CHALKHILL (fl. r600?)
, English poet
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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
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Written long since by John Chalkhill, Esq., an Acquaintant and Friend of Edmund Spencer " (1683), with a preface written five years earlier by Walton
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Another poem, " Alcilia, Philoparthens Loving Follie " (1595, reprinted in vol. x. of the Jahrbuch des deutschen Shakespeare- Vereins), was at one See also: - TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
attributed to him
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Nothing further is known of the poet, but a person of his name occurs as one of the coroners for Middlesex in the later years of Queen Elizabeth's reign
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Professor Saintsbury, who included Thealma and Clearchus in vol. ii. of his Minor Poets of the Caroline Period ( See also: - OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
, 1906), points out a marked resemblance between his work and that of See also: - WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
.
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