William Chamberlayne
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William Chamberlayne (1619 - July 11, 1679), was an English poet.

Nothing is known of his history except that he practised as a physician at Shaftesbury in Dorsetshire, and fought on the Royalist side at the second battle of Newbury.

His works are:

• Pharonnida (1659), a verse romance in five books
• Love's Victory (1658), a tragi-comedy, acted under another title in 1678 at the Theatre Royal
• England's Jubilee (1660), a poem in honor of the Restoration.

A prose version of Pharonnida, entitled Eromena, or the Noble Stranger, appeared in 1683.

Southey speaks of him as "a poet to whom I am indebted for many hours of delight." Pharonnida was reprinted by SW Singer in 1820, and again in 1905 by Prof. G Saintsbury in Minor Poets of the Caroline Period (vol. i.). The poem is loose in construction, but contains some passages of great beauty.

Reference

• This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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