The Lucasta Poems by Richard Lovelace
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had, besides, some taste and aptitude for military affairs, and
could discourse about strategics in a city tavern over a bowl of canary with the author of LUCASTA, notwithstanding that he was a little troubled by nervousness (according to report), when the enemy was too near. <2.29> From Andrew Marvell's lines prefixed to LUCASTA, 1649, it seems that Lovelace and himself were on tolerably good terms, and that when the former presented the Kentish petition, and was imprisoned for so doing, his friends, who exerted themselves to procure his release, suspected Marvell of a share in his disgrace, which Marvell, according to his own account, earnestly disclaimed. See the lines commencing:-- "But when the beauteous ladies came to know," &c. ADDITIONAL NOTES. in the text.> LUCASTA: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs, &c. |
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