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FIVE QUERIES
By HENRY KERSLEY. (Corpus Christi Hall, Maidstone)
1. *Lines by Sir John Suckling.*—Is Sir John Suckling, or Owen Feltham, the real author of the poem whose first verse runs thus: "When, dearest, I but think on thee, Methinks all things that lovely be Are present, and my soul delighted; For beauties that from worth arise, Are like the grace of deities, Still present with us though unsighted." I find it in the twelfth edition of Feltham's Works, 1709, p. 593., with the following title: "This ensuing copy of the late Printer hath been pleased to honour, by mistaking it among those of the most ingenious and too early lost, Sir John Suckling." I f…
Topics: Poetry, Phrase Origins, Heraldry
Locations: Dublin, Versailles