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John Suckling Quotes

English poet

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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Similar: Thomas Moore 51.6% Letitia Elizabeth Landon 51.5% Thomas Hood 50.6% Robert Herrick 50.1% Lord Byron 49.3% William Butler Yeats 49.0% John Keats 48.6% James Thomson 48.5% Luís de Camões 48.2% Alfred Tennyson 48.2%
If I a fancy take
To black and blue,
That fancy doth it beauty make.

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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!

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Will, when looking well can't move her,
Looking ill prevail?
Prithee, why so pale?

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Why so pale and wan, fond lover
Prithee, why so pale?

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