John Suckling

Name: The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse
Author: John Suckling

The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

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“The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse”, published in 1910, is a work by John Suckling. It explores elements such as D'Avenant, poem and Hazlitt.

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ There acts, as glorious as the sun,
Are by her veneration spun,
In one of which I would have brought
A pure, unspotted, abstract thought,
Considering her as she is good,⁠45
Not in her frame of flesh and blood.
These atoms then, all in her sight,
I bad him join, that so he might
Discern between true love's creation,
And that love's form that's now in fashion.⁠50
Love, granting unto my request,
Began to labour in my breast ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ But wiser Apollo bade him draw nigher,
And when he was mounted a little higher,
He openly declared that it was the best sign ⁠110
Of good store of wit, to have good store of coin;
And without a syllable more or less said,
He put the laurel on the Alderman's head.
At this all the wits were in such a maze
That for a good while they did nothing but gaze ⁠115
One upon another: not a man in the place
But had discontent writ in great in his face.
Only the small poets cheer'd up again,
Out of hope, as 'twas thought, of borrowing ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ All that awakes, all that inflames desires,
All that sweetly commands, all that beguiles,10
He does into one pair of eyes convey,
And there begs leave that he himself may stay.
And there he brings me, where his ambush lay,
Secure and careless, to a stranger land;
And, never warning me, which was foul play,15
Does make me close by all this beauty stand:
Where, first struck dead, I did at last recover,
To know that I might only live to love her. ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ She every day her man does kill,⁠15
⁠And I as often die;
Neither her power, then, nor my will
⁠Can questioned be,
⁠What is the mystery?
Sure Beauty's empires, like to greater states,⁠20
Have certain periods set, and hidden fates.
II
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Of thee, kind boy, I ask no red and white,
⁠To make up my delight;
⁠No odd becoming graces,
Black eyes, or little know-not-whats in faces;
Make me but mad enough, give me good store⁠5
Of love for her I court:
⁠I ask no more,
'Tis love in love that makes the sport. ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ That love hath wings and soars aloft.
Then let me grow in my desire,
Though I be martyr'd in that fire;
For grace it is enough for me,
But only to love such as he:20
For never shall my thoughts be base,
Though luckless, yet without disgrace:
Then let him that my love shall blame
Or clip love's wings, or quench love's flame. ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ A SOLDIER
I am a man of war and might,
And know thus much, that I can fight,
Whether I am i' th' wrong or right,
⁠Devoutly.
No woman under heaven I fear,⁠5
New oaths I can exactly swear;
And forty healths my brain will bear
⁠Most stoutly. ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ You say I am but a poor Suckling,
⁠And thus you cry me down.
Well, it's no matter what you say
Of me or mine, that ran away:⁠20
⁠I hold it no good fashion
A loyal subject's blood to spill,
When we have knaves enough to kill
⁠By force and proclamation. ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ With love, and then to leave a room for fear
That shall all that control,
What is it but to rear
Our passions and our hopes on high,25
That thence they may descry
The noblest way how to despair and die? ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ Respect not beauty, but a comely feature;
And others, too, that for those parts in sight⁠5
Care not so much, so that the rest be right.
Each man his humour hath, and, faith, 'tis mine
To love that woman which I now define. ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ Set you your heart at rest:
Think not me from my faith to move,
Because you faith protest.
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The man that doth possess my heart,
Has twice as much perfection,10
And does excel you in desert,
As much as in affection. ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ From such sweet raptures as to joy did move.
Our thoughts, as pure as the chaste morning's breath,
When from the night's cold arms it creeps away,
Were cloth'd in words and maiden's blush that hath⁠15
More purity, more innocence than they. ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ Thus absence dies, and dying proves
No absence can subsist with loves
That do partake of fair perfection;⁠15
Since in the darkest night they may
By love's quick motion find a way
To see each other by reflection. ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ Let's lose no time, but leave her:
That giant upon air will live,35
And hold it out for ever.
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To such a place our camp remove,
As will no siege abide:
I hate a fool that starves her love. ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ Yet still I love the fairsome (why?
For nothing but to please my eye) ;⁠10
And so the fat and soft-skinn'd dame
I'll flatter to appease my flame:
For she that's musical I'll long,
When I am sad, to sing a song. ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ And then, whose fate shall be to die
First of us two, by legacy
Shall all his store bequeath, and give
His love to him that shall survive;⁠40
For no one stock can ever serve
To love so much as she'll deserve. ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ When love so rumbles in his pate, no sleep comes in his eyes.
Our gallant's case is worst of all, he lies so just betwixt them;
For he's in love and he's in debt, and knows not which most vex him. ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ Shewed little art, for praise was but their due.
To say she's fair that's fair, this is no pains:⁠15
He shows himself most poet, that most feigns.
To find out virtues strangely hid in me;
Ay, there's the art and learned poetry! ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ Hopes join'd with doubts, and joys with April tears,
That crowns our love with pleasures: these are gone
When once we come to full fruition,⁠10
Like waking in a morning, when all night
Our fancy hath been fed with true delight. ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ Should they stand all love's battery!
Persinda's eyes great mischief do:
So do, we know, the cannon too;
But men are safe at distance still:15
Where they reach not, they cannot kill.
Love is a fit, and soon is past ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ She shall not like the thing we do
Sometimes, and yet shall like it too;
Nor any notice take at all
Of what, we gone, she would extol.40
Love she shall feed, but fear to nourish;
For, where fear is, love cannot flourish ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ I have lov'd
⁠Three whole days together;
And am like to love three more,
⁠If it prove fair weather. ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ Your person would certainly be necessary here; and I make no doubt your wisdom will find out the quickest and best way for it, unless you yourself (as it well may be after all this) know that all the world on this side of the seas are in errors. That which makes me any way stagger in my hopes of your sudden coming home, is, that the King of Suede knows too well that, England satisfied in the demands of the Palatinate, and things at a full point concerning that particular, this crown will no longer make court to him, and after it he must expect no great matters from hence. ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ Her feet beneath her petticoat,
Like little mice, stole in and out,
As if they fear'd the light:45
But O, she dances such a way!
No sun upon an Easter-day
Is half so fine a sight. ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ Or carry you abroad to die?
He, whom the plague or love once takes,15
Every room a pest-house makes.
Absence were good if 't were but sense,
That only holds th' intelligence.
Pure love alone no hurt would do ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ Big with chimeras, vapours here
Innumerable hatcht as there.
The sea's my mind, which calm would be,⁠Sea⁠45
Were it from winds (my passions) free;
But out alas! no sea I find
Is troubled like a lover's mind. ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ Her cheeks so rare a white was on,55
No daisy makes comparison
(Who sees them is undone) ;
For streaks of red were mingled there,
Such as are on a Katherne pear
(The side that's next the sun) .60
Her lips were red; ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ Her breast, her milk, her very gown,
Which she did wear in Bethlehem town,⁠20
⁠When in the inn she lay.
That all the world knows is a fable;
For so good clothes ne'er lay in stable
⁠Upon a lock of hay. ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ Besides, France, which in show pretends to go along with us, really perchance intends nothing less, since there is nothing but that of the Palatinate that can keep Spain and us from tying a more strict knot together, and nothing but that that [sic] has kept us so long asunder. And the ill will be that, if his Majesty of Suede make larger progress and be more fortunate, we shall here fear him as too great, or he himself will be more difficult: if he be less successful, we shall not conclude with him, as too weak. ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ He that is gone to heaven's gone astray:
⁠Brohall, our gallant friend,
Is gone to church, as martyrs to the fire:
⁠Who marry, differ but i' th' end,
⁠Since both do take⁠10
The hardest way to what they most desire. ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ This heart too little, that too great.
O that I were all soul, that I might prove
For you as fit a love20
As you are for an angel; for, I know,
None but pure spirits are fit loves for you.
You are all ethereal ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ But in all their records either in verse or prose,
There was not one laureat without a nose.
To Will. Bartlet sure all the wits meant well, ⁠55
But first they would see how his snow would sell:
Will. ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ For such a marriage-bed must know no more
Than repetition of what was before.
⁠Awake, awake,
⁠And take⁠35
⁠Such presents as poor men can make;
⁠They can add little unto bliss
⁠Who cannot wish. ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ Hazlitt cites the opinion of an anonymous commentator, that 'Moore's description of Lilias (sic) in The Loves of the Angels appears to be an imitation of Suckling.' The resemblance, if there be any, is of the most general kind. W. W., commenting on the 'bashful tenderness' of the bride at l. 49, remarks that Suckling's 'portraits of female beauty are not so finished as those of Moore and Byron; but they possess greater attraction, because he gives only a glimpse, and leaves the rest to fancy. ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ When she hath little or nothing spoken,⁠20
⁠Know this,
⁠Thou lov'st amiss;
⁠And, to love true,
Thou must begin again, and love anew.
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If when thou appear'st to be within,⁠25
Thou lett'st not men ask and ask again ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ At Charing Cross, hard by the way
Where we (thou know'st) do sell our hay,
There is a house with stairs;
And there did I see coming down10
Such folk as are not in our town,
Vorty at least, in pairs. ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ If I a fancy take
⁠To black and blue,⁠15
That fancy doth it beauty make. ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ Dull and insensible, could'st see
A thing so near a Deity
Move up and down, and feel no change?⁠20
J. S.
None and so great were alike strange.
I had my thoughts, but not your way;
All are not born, sir, to the bay:
Alas! ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ for some honest lover's ghost,
⁠Some kind unbodied post
⁠Sent from the shades below!
⁠I strangely long to know,
Whether the nobler chaplets wear,⁠5
Those that their mistress' scorn did bear,
⁠Or those that were us'd kindly. ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ W. W.'s note is as follows: 'This poem is remarkable for ease and sprightliness, the true characteristics of Sir J. Suckling's verse, and may therefore be taken as a fair specimen of his powers. Suckling seems to have been intimately acquainted with the female heart; he praises, ridicules, and adores the sex in the same breath. ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ Can shew what all the world besides can't do,
A face like to your own, so fair, so true.
L. E.
For you a girdle, madam; but I doubt me
Nature hath order'd there's no waist about ye:10
Pray, therefore, be but pleas'd to search my pack,
There's no ware that I have that you shall lack.
L. E.L. M.
You, ladies, want you pins? ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ A false star shot to a mark'd place,
Does run apace,
And, thinking it to catch,
A jelly up does snatch:15
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So our dull souls, tasting delight
Far off, by sense and appetite,
Think that is right
And real good ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ I do him all the service I can, where I find it may do any good, though I know Jacob Ashley has lost himself about the same thing.
'That which may in a second place be considerable will be your too lively representations, making the King of Swede to outway the Emperor more than they will allow him here to do; and, indeed, your Lordship's case in this is not much unlike that of Pharneses, for where you are they thought you too much a Spaniard, and here they think you all much a Spaniard. ”

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“ Passion did your judgment wrong,
⁠Or want of reason shame you.⁠20
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Truth, time's fair and witty daughter,
⁠Shortly shall discover,
Y' are a subject fit for laughter,
⁠And more fool than lover. ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ Sir Henry Vane's negotiations with Gustavus were not successful: England had not enough money to offer. Sir Henry's son, afterwards the famous Sir Henry Vane of Commonwealth times, had been attached to the English Embassy at Vienna, and had returned to England shortly before Suckling. ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ Should e'er be marr'd, because 't could ne'er be mended.
Take no corruption from thy grandame Eve;
Rather want faith to save thee, than believe
Too soon; for credit me 'tis true,⁠15
Men most of all enjoy when least they do. ”

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“ When all had been caught, new couples were formed, and the pair which failed to occupy one of the ends of the ground was 'in hell.' 'Barley' may be derived from the fact that the game was often played in a cornfield: in Scotland, where one person caught the rest, and the rest, as caught, helped him, it was known as 'barla-bracks about the stacks.' Or 'barley' may be from a Scottish corruption of the cry 'parley.' For examples, see Nares' Glossary, and New English Dict., s.v. ”

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John Suckling, The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse (1910)

“ Many that really wish you well begin to imagine that you shall be kept there longer than you would. If there be any such thing, the causes certainly will be these. First, your greatness with my Lord Marquis, and your too strict intelligence one with another, which is here represented to the full. And howsoever your Lordship thinks things are reconciled betwixt my Lord Treasurer and him, yet they say otherwise here, and the effects speak no less. No man dares think well of him here ”

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“ The ancient poets and their learned rimes 65
The crafty boy that had full oft assay'd 52
The little boy, to show his might and power 62
There is a thing which in the light 62
There never yet was honest man 8
There never yet was woman made 18
This moiety war 253
This one request I make to him that sits the clouds above 48
This, Sir, to them: but unto Majesty 83
Those common passions, hopes, and fears, that still 82
Thou hast redeem'd us, Will; and future times 20
Thou think'st I flatter, when thy praise I tell 60 ”

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