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John Suckling was born in Middlesex into a wealthy Norfolk family; he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Gray’s Inn. On the death of his father in 1628 he inherited large estates and assumed the life of a courtier; he was knighted in 1630. He served as a Royalist soldier from 1639 to 1641, and then fled to the Continent, where he died in mysterious circumstances, possibly by suicide. His literary works were collected posthumously. They include poems, songs, three plays, letters to various eminent figures, and an unorthodox religious tract.
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Campbell, G. (1989). Sir John Suckling. In: Campbell, G. (eds) The Renaissance (1550–1660). Macmillan Anthologies of English Literature. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20157-0_46
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