The Works of Sir John Suckling in prose and verse

by John Suckling

THE WORKS OF

SIR JOHN SUCKLING

IN PROSE AND VERSE

EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES
BY
A. HAMILTON THOMPSON, M.A.

 

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GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, LIMITED
NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.
TORONTO: THE MUSSON BOOK COMPANY, LTD.
1910

CONTENTS

	PAGE
Introduction	ix
To the Reader	3
On New-Year’s Day, 1640. To the King	7
Loving and Beloved	8
'If when Don Cupid's dart'	9
A Session of the Poets	9
Love's World	12
Sonnets	14
To his much Honoured the Lord Lepington, upon his Translation of Malvezzi, his 'Romulus' and 'Tarquin'	17
Against Fruition	18
'There never yet was woman made'	18
To my Friend Will. Davenant, upon his Poem of 'Madagascar'	19
To my Friend Will. Davenant, upon his other Poems	20
'Love, Reason, Hate, did once bespeak'	20
Song	20
Upon my Lady Carlisle's Walking in Hampton Court Garden	21
To Mr. Davenant for Absence	22
Against Absence	23
A Supplement of an Imperfect Copy of Verses of Mr. William Shakespeare's, by the Author	24
The Lover's Clock	25
''Tis now, since I sat down before'	25
Upon my Lord Brohall's Wedding	26
'Sir, whether these lines do find you out'	27
Against Fruition	28
A Ballad upon a Wedding	29
'My dearest rival, lest our love'	32
Song	33
Upon Two Sisters	35
To his Rival	35
Farewell to Love	37
Last Remains front matter	39
To the Most Honoured and Highly Deserving the Lady Southcot	43
The Stationer to the Reader	44
The Invocation	45
[A Poem with the Answer]	45
Love Turned to Hatred	47
The Careless Lover	47
Love and Debt Alike Troublesome	48
Song	49
To a Lady that Forbade to Love before Company	50
The Guiltless Inconstant	50
Love's Representation	51
Song	52
Upon the Black Spots Worn by my Lady D. E.	53
Song	53
Proffered Love Rejected	55
Desdain	56
Lutea Allison	57
Perjury Excused	58
Upon T. C. Having the Pox	58
Upon the First Sight of my Lady Seymour	58
Upon L. M. Weeping	59
The Deformed Mistress	59
Non Est Mortale Quod Opto	60
His Dream	61
Upon A. M.	61
A Candle	62
The Metamorphosis	62
To B. C.	62
Upon Sir John Laurence's Bringing Water over the Hills to my L. Middlesex his House at Witten	63
A Barber	63
A Soldier	63
To my Lady E. C. at her Going out of England	64
A Pedlar of Small-wares	64
An Answer to Some Verses Made in his Praise	65
Love's Burning-glass	66
The Miracle	66
[Εἰ μὲν ἦν μαθεῖν]	66
Song	67
The Expostulation	68
Detraction Execrated	68
Song	69
A Prologue of the Author's to a Masque at Witten	70
Cantilena Politica-Jocunda Facta post Principis Discessum in Hispaniam, 1623	71
Verses	73
Sir John Suckling's Answer	74
Aglaura	77
The Goblins	161
Brennoralt	217
The Sad One	267
Letters to Divers Eminent Personages	297
Letters to several Persons of Honour	327
An Account of Religion by Reason	339
Appendix	353
Notes on Poems	359
Notes on Plays	378
Notes on Letters	401
Index to First Lines	422