John Suckling Quotes

1609–1642 England

Sir John Suckling (10 February 1609 – after May 1641) was an English poet, prominent among those renowned for careless gaiety and wit – the accomplishments of a cavalier poet. He also invented the card game cribbage.

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Also known as: Suckling, John

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

Fragmenta Aurea (1646)

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

Fragmenta Aurea (1646)

The maid—and thereby hangs a tale;
For such a maid no Whitson-ale
Could ever yet produce:
No grape, that’s kindly ripe, could be
So round, so plump, so soft as she,
Nor half so full of juice.

Fragmenta Aurea (1646)

'Tis now, since I sat down before
That foolish fort, a heart,
(Time strangely spent), a year and more,
And still I did my part.

Fragmenta Aurea (1646)

Why so pale and wan, fond lover
Prithee, why so pale?
Will, when looking well can't move her,
Looking ill prevail?
Prithee, why so pale? ...
Quit, quit, for shame, this will not move:
This cannot take her.
If of herself she cannot love,
Nothing can make her:
The devil take her!

Aglaura (1638)

She's a savour to the glass,
An excuse to make it pass.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Suckling (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.