“Why so pale and wan, fond lover
Prithee, why so pale?”
Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?
John Suckling fue un poeta y caballero inglés, cuyo poema más conocido es "Ballad Upon a Wedding". Escribió poemas serios, pero se le recuerda especialmente por sus poemas líricos, ligeros y cínicos como si hubiera estado improvisando. Es un poeta “galante, suave, fácil, lírico, cultivado” . Inventó el juego de naipes denominado Cribbage.[1] Wikipedia

“Why so pale and wan, fond lover
Prithee, why so pale?”
Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?
“If I a fancy take
To black and blue,
That fancy doth it beauty make.”
Of thee (kind boy) I ask no red and white.
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“Will, when looking well can't move her,
Looking ill prevail?
Prithee, why so pale?”
Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?
Tis Now, Since I Sat Down Before.
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Ballad upon a Wedding. Compare: "Her pretty feet, like snails, did creep A little out, and then, As if they played at bo-peep, Did soon draw in again", Robert Herrick, To Mistress Susanna Southwell.
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Oh! For some honest lover's ghost.
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