Authority Cited: Suckling, John
Author name and dates: John Suckling (1609-1642)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cavalier poet; commanded richly outfitted Cavalry; invented cribbage; won large amounts at cards, bowling; died in exile
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 50 Suckling cites in 1755 Dict. vol 1, about 80 cites in Dict. vol. 2. One additional citation was identified in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italics below. All of the citations below are to Suckling in the the Dict.] The approximately 70 headwords sampled in the 1755 Dict. are principally from the the letters "A" through "D," "I/J," "L," "M," "S," and "W."
The works of Sir John Suckling. Containing his poems, letters, and plays. 1719, London: printed for J. Tonson; and sold by W. Taylor at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row [BKG Note: the edition of Suckling's Works used by SJ is unknown. The first edition of Suckling's Works was 1659.]
Author name and dates: John Suckling (1609-1642)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cavalier poet; commanded richly outfitted Cavalry; invented cribbage; won large amounts at cards, bowling; died in exile
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 50 Suckling cites in 1755 Dict. vol 1, about 80 cites in Dict. vol. 2. One additional citation was identified in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italics below. All of the citations below are to Suckling in the the Dict.] The approximately 70 headwords sampled in the 1755 Dict. are principally from the the letters "A" through "D," "I/J," "L," "M," "S," and "W."
The works of Sir John Suckling. Containing his poems, letters, and plays. 1719, London: printed for J. Tonson; and sold by W. Taylor at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row [BKG Note: the edition of Suckling's Works used by SJ is unknown. The first edition of Suckling's Works was 1659.]
- A Letter to a Friend, to dissuade him from marrying a widow which he had formerly been in love with, and quitted [addressed to "Tom," perhaps Thomas Carew]: burning-glass;
- Answer to the Foregoing Letter; advisedly [BKG Note: SJ appears to have marked this passage without noticing that it was Tom's answer to Suckling's letter.]
- A Prologue of the Author's, to a Masque at Witten; browsick
- Ballad Upon a Wedding; carouse; Catherine; compare; newly; serving-man;
- Detraction Execrated; shorten
- Farewel to Love; death; leave;
- His Dream; chafe;
- If when Don Cupid's dart....; whine;
- [Letter] A Disswasion from Love; methodically;
- An Account of Religion by Reason; succeeder
- [Letter] For the Two Excellent Sisters; disfigurement (abridged quote);
- [Letter] Fortune and Love....; take;
- [Letter] Madam, Before this instant....; impertinently;
- [Letter] Madam, but that I know your goodness....; strange
- [Letter] My Lord, But that you do and say things....; disproportion;
- [Letter] My Lord, To persuade one who has newly....; incapability; sheet-rope; superfluity;
- [Letter] Sir, Since the settling of your family....; check; come in (added in 1773 Dict., same quote as lunacy); disproportionable; distemper (inexact quote); lunacy (quote without Suckling name in 1773 Dict.), tenantable; weatherbeaten;
- [Letter] To a Cousin...Honest Charles; dirt-pie;
- [Letter] To Mr. Henry German, in the Beginning of Parliament, 1640; aloof; cavalier; courtier; draw; duellist; set; set up; suspect; worst;
- [Letter] When I receive your lines, dear Princess....; immerit;
- Love and Debt, alike troublesome; crown;
- Love's World; mutability; soft;
- Lutea Allanson; wed;
- On New Year's Day, 1640, To the King; ecstasy;
- [Play] The Goblins; cowl-staff;
- Sir J.S.; moult;
- Song. If you refuse me once....; crave; dotage;
- Song. No, no, fair Heretick....; zone
- Song. The Crafty Boy....; bluntness;
- Song. Unjust decrees....; superfluity;
- Song. Why so pale and wan....; wan;
- Sonnet II; becoming; cozenage; dish; so;
- Sonnet III; chaplet;
- The Deform'd Mistress: calf; small; whitleather
- The Expostulation; aloft; clip; luckless;
- There never yet was Woman made; buzz;
- To a Lady that forbad to love before Company; lumpish; muff;
- To his much honored, the Lord Lepington, upon his translation of Malvezzi, his Romulus and Tarquin; straggle;
- To my Lady E.C. on her going out of England; sign;
- Upon the black spots worn by my Lady D.E.: martyr
- Suckling (no work cited); come [BKG Note: the quotation not located in Suckling's Works is "Neither sword nor sceptre can come at conscience; but it is above and beyond the reach of both"]