CHALKHILL, JOHN (fl. r600?) , English poet. Two songs by him are included in Izaak Walton's Compleat Angler, and in 1683 appeared "Thealma and Clearchus. A
" (1683), with a preface written five years earlier by Walton. Another poem, " Alcilia, 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 of his name occurs as one of the coroners for
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