John Suckling Quotes

Sir John Suckling 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. He is best known for his poem "Ballad upon a Wedding". Wikipedia  

✵ 10. February 1609 – 1. June 1642
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Famous John Suckling Quotes

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

John Suckling

Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?

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

John Suckling

Of thee (kind boy) I ask no red and white.
Other poems

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

John Suckling

Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?

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

John Suckling

Ballad upon a Wedding. Compare: "Her pretty feet, like snails, did creep A little out, and then, As if they played at bo-peep, Did soon draw in again", Robert Herrick, To Mistress Susanna Southwell.
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