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| carries her off with her sister Pamela and the pretended Amazon. In the end, Philoclea is wedded to Pyrocles; and Amphialus, in the later continuation of the story, marries Helen, Queen of Corinth. | ||
| 17. | To the Lord Lepington. | |
| Henry Carey, son of Sir Robert Carey, Earl of Monmouth, was known by his father's second title of Baron Leppington from the creation of the earldom in 1626 to his succession to it in 1639. A list of translations by this noble author is given by Wood, Ath. Ox., ed. Bliss, iii. 516. He married in 1620 Suckling's first cousin, Martha Cranfield, eldest daughter of the future Earl of Middlesex. His translation of the Ritratto del Privato Politico Christiano (1635) of Virgilio, Marchese di Malvezzi, appeared in 1637. See Carew's complimentary verses in Mr. Vincent's ed. of Carew, p. 131, and the editor's note, p. 254. Suckling's and Carew's verses, with others by D'Avenant, Aurelian Townshend, and Sir Francis Wortley, appeared before the second ed. of the translation, 1638. Another translation, by T. Powel, was published in 1647: see H. Vaughan, Olor Iscanus (ed. Chambers, 1896, i. 97). Malvezzi (whom Dr. Jessopp, in an article on Carey in Dict. Nat. Biog., vol. ix., wrongly calls Valezzi) was ambassador to London from Philip IV. of Spain. Milton, Of Reformation in England, lib. ii., mentions 'their Malvezzi, that can cut Tacitus into slivers and slits.' | ||
| ll. 1, 2. | W. W. quotes Byron: 'And 'tis some praise in peers to write at all.' | |
| 18. | Against Fruition. | |
| See Cowley's poem on the same theme (Poems, ed. Waller, 1905, pp. 98, 99). Waller's answer to Suckling, with which this poem is printed with some variants of reading, will be found in Mr. Drury's ed. of Waller, 1893, pp. 116-119. | ||
| l. 19. | whate'er before th' have been] Early eds. read t'have. Mr. Drury modernizes to they've, as in Chalmers, Eng. Poets, vi. 494; but Waller's reading, which Mr. Drury notes, was what e'retofore hath been. | |
