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WILLIAM CHAMBERLAYNE (1619-1679)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 820 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:CHAMBERLAYNE (1619-1679)  , See also:English poet, was See also:born in 1619 . Nothing is known of his See also:history except that he practised as a physician at See also:Shaftesbury in See also:Dorsetshire, and fought on the Royalist See also:side at the second See also:battle of See also:Newbury . He died on the 1th of See also:July 1679 . His See also:works are: Pharonnida (1659), a See also:verse See also:romance in five books; Love's Victory (1658), a tragi-See also:comedy, acted under another See also:title in 1678 at the See also:Theatre Royal; See also:England's See also:Jubilee (166o), a poem in See also:honour of the Restoration . A See also:prose version of Pharonnida, entitled Eromena, or the See also:Noble Stranger, appeared in 1683 . See also:Southey speaks of him as " a poet to whom I am indebted for many See also:hours of delight." Pharonnida was reprinted by S . W . See also:Singer in 182o, and again in 1905 by Prof . G . See also:Saintsbury in See also:Minor Poets of the See also:Caroline See also:Period (vol. i.) . The poem is loose in construction, but contains some passages of See also:great beauty .

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