F might have done in as many Years. And after his return to his Country, he raised a Troop of Horse for the King's Service entirely at his own Charge, and fo richly and compleatly mounted, that it ftood him in 12000 /. But his Endeavours did not meet with the Succefs he promised himself for his Majesty's Service, which he laid very much to Heart, and foon after this Miscarriage was feized with a Fever, of which he died at 28 Years of Age. In which short space he had done enough to procure him the Love and Esteem of all the Politeft Men who converfed with him: But as he had fet out in the World with all the advantages of Birth and Perfon, Education, Parts and Fortune, he had raised Peoples Expectation of him to a prodigious height; and if his Character does not appear enough diftinguish'd in the History of thofe Times, it can be afcribed to nothing but the Immaturity of his Death, which did not allow him time for Action. I will not trouble the Reader with any other Character of his Writings, than what has been given of them by Mr. Lloyd in his Memoirs; That his Poems are clean, fprightly and Natural; his Difcourfes full and convincing; his Plays well-humour'd and taking; his his Letters fragrant and sparkling. He ob ferves further, that his Thoughts were not fo loofe as his Expreffions, nor his Life fo vain as his Thoughts, and at the fame time makes an allowance for his Youth and Sanguine Complexion, which would eafily have been rectified by a little more Time and Experience. Of this we have Inftances in his Occafional Discourse about Religion to My Lord Dorset, to whom he had the honour to be related, and in his Thoughts of the Posture of Affairs in the State to Mr. Jermin, afterwards Earl of St. Albans; in both which he has discovered, that he could think as coolly, and reason as justly, as Men of more Years, and lefs Fire. "Tis in regard to these Thoughts, with fome other Sentences of Religion and Morality, which he delivered to his Friends about him in the time of his Sickness, that Mr. Lloyd thus concludes his Account of him. Ne ha Zelantis animæ Sacriores Scintillule ipfum, unde deciderant, fpirantes Cælum, Author Magnus ipfa, quam Aliis dedit, careret memoria; Intereffe Pofteris putavimus brevem Honoratissimi Viri Johannis Sucklingii vitam hiftoriâ. Effe perennandam. Vt Vtpote qui Nobiliffimá Sucklingiorum Fa milia oriundus, cui tantum reddidit, quantum accepit, honorem, Nat. Cal. April 1613. Withamiæ in Agro Middlef. Renatus ibid. Maij mo. denatus 164 haud jam Trigefimus, & fcriptu digniffima fecit,& factu digniffima fcripfit, Calamo pariter & gladio celebris, pacis Artium gnarus, & belli, 7mo. ON ΟΝ New-Year's DAY, 1640. A To the KING. I. Wake, great Sir! the Sun fhines here, For thus by us your Pow'r is understood, And take Such Presents as poor Men can make; They can add little unto Blifs Who cannot wish. May no ill Vapour cloud the Sky, That you may think Heav'n fent to try this Year, III. May all the Discords in your State, B That That what wou'd of it felf found harfh, or fright, IV. What Conquerors from Battels find, Make fuch strange Rapes upon the Place, 't may Awake, awake, &c. V. May every Pleasure and Delight Double this Year, fave thofe o'th' Night: And take Such Prefents as poor Men can make; T Loving and Belov'd. I. HERE never yet was honeft Man Integrity our Ends promove: For Kings and Lovers are alike in this II. Here we are lov'd, and there we love; be Which |