Sir John Suckling — a remark

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“Horseley air did excel the waters of the Bath, just so much as love is a more noble disease than the pox.”

Playful comparison elevating the affliction of love above ordinary illness · Letter to Thomas Carew

Sir John Suckling

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Sir John Suckling

10 February 1609–1642

Sir John Suckling stands as one of the most vivid and enigmatic figures of the seventeenth century, a man whose life was lived with the same flamboyant intensity that characterized his verse. Born in 1609 and dying under mysterious circumstances in 1642, Suckling's brief thirty-three years encapsulate the glittering…

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