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Oh, the gallant fisher's life!
It is the best of any;
'T is full of pleasure, void of strife,
And 't is beloved by many.
--
John Chalkhill, The Angler; in 1683, the year in which he died, Walton prefixed a preface to a work edited by him: "Thealma and Clearchus, a Pastoral History, in smooth and easy verse; written long since by John Chalkhill Esq., an acquaintant and friend of Edmund Spenser." There is some speculation that Chalkhill was merely a pseudonym under which Walton wrote certain of his poems. See Thomas Zouch, Life of Walton (1830), p. 57: "Chalkhill,—a name unappropriated, a verbal phantom, a shadow of a shade. Chalkhill is no other than our old piscatory friend incognito".

 

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