ii8 IZAAK WALTON AND HIS FRIENDS 



Zouch thioks "his modesty precluded him from 

 annexing his name to the treatise ! " There are 

 parallel passages in the treatise and in other 

 writings admitted by all to have been written by 

 Walton set out in Shepherd's Waltoniana (1878), 

 which, as I have before said, give strong internal 

 evidence that Walton was the author of the two 

 letters. Zouch's edition of the Lives was brought 

 out in 1796, and was re-issued in 1807 and (with 

 inclusion of Love and Truth), in 1817 ; his Life of 

 Walton was published in 1 823, and was re-issued 

 in 1825. 



(6) AS TO "THEALMA AND CLEARCHUS " 



In 1683 Thealma and Clear chus, a Pastoral 

 History, m Smooth and Easie Verse, was published 

 by "Walton. If curiosity is aroused over Love and 

 Truth it is more so over this work. Who was John 

 Chalkhill, by whom it was said to have been written ? 

 He is said on the title-page to have been "an 

 acquaintance and friend of Edmund Spencer." But 

 Spenser died in 1599, when Walton was five years 

 old 1 A mystery is here ; Jo. Chalkhill signed two 

 songs to be found in The Complete Angler. 

 Walton had connections of the name. A John 

 Chalkhill died at Winchester in 1679. This is all 

 too wonderful. We do not offer any suggestion as 

 to this literary mystery, but it seems rather hard 



