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	A Poem with the Answer.
		For 'Sir Toby Matthews' see note on A Session of the Poets, l. 63.
47.	Love Turned to Hatred.
		The opening lines recall Drayton's famous sonnet (Idea, lxi.): 'Since there's no help,' etc.
	l. 9.	I'll hate so perfectly] Cf. Donne, Satire II., ll. 1, 2: 'Sir, though—I thank God for it—I do hate Perfectly all this town.'
	The Careless Lover.
	l. 6.	know it] knows it, early edd.
	ll. 15, etc.	Cf. the fifth stanza of the song 'Honest lover,' above.
48.	ll. 19, 20.	And when, etc.] Cf. the seventeenth stanza of the Ballad upon a Wedding, above.
	l. 23.	Blackfriars] The private theatre, where Suckling's plays were produced.
	l. 25.	pathless grove] Cf. Against Absence, above, l. 32.
50.	To A Lady, etc.
		The editor of 1836 notes that Cibber, in the Lives of the Poets published under his name, considered these to be Suckling's best lines. With the contrary opinion of the editor most readers will be in harmony.
	l. 2.	muff] Cf. To His Rival, above, l. 31. See Fairholt, Costume in England, ed. Dillon, ii. 291, where the first instance quoted is from Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, 1601, II., i.: 'She always wears a muff if you be remembered.' The earlier term for a muff seems to have been a snuffkin: Fairholt gives the variants snuftkin, snoskin. The muff was much used by dandies after the Restoration (ibid., i. 353, 354). The literary locus classicus for the muff is, of course, the episode in the inn at Upton-on-Severn in Fielding's Tom Jones.
	l. 11.	nice] Cf. stanza 17 of Love's World, above: 'Extremely cold, extremely nice.'
	The Guiltless Inconstant.
	l. 5.	Each wanton eye] Cf. stanza 5 of Farewell to Love, above.