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		Charles I. In that volume they were headed 'Sir John Suckling's Verses.'
74, 75.	Sir John Suckling's Answer.
		Printed by Hazlitt from Ashmole MS. 36, f. 54. It seems to have been written in answer to some satirical doggerel by Sir John Mennes on Suckling's preparations for the Scottish war. The allusion to Lashly refers, of course, to the Scottish general Leslie, who afterwards led the Scottish army to victory at Newburn.

NOTES ON AGLAURA

85.	Act I., Scene I.
	l. 8.	as it were one's own] as 'twere ones owne 1646, 1648; as 'twere his owne 1658.
	l. 22.	[is] fest'red] festred 1646, etc.
86.	Scene II.
	l. 3.	carbonadoes] 'Carbonade: a carbonadoe, a rasher on the coals; also a flash over the face, which fetcheth the flesh with it' (Cotgrave). Cf. All's Well that Ends Well, IV., iv. 107. The faces of the soldiers without are so slashed that they are more like rashers cut crosswise before boiling, than like faces.
87.	l. 21.	chemists, blowing still the coals] Cf. Jonson, Alchemist, ii. 1: 'His fire-drake, His Lungs, his Zephyrus, he that puffs his coals.'
	Scene III.
	l. 2.	[to] sin] Hazlitt; sin 1646, etc.
89.	Scene IV.
	l. 11.	Platonic ladies' hearts] Howell (3 June, 1634) mentions the new fashion of Platonic love at court, and the prospect of a masque on the subject. D'Avenant's Temple of Love was acted by the Queen, Maids of Honour, etc., on Shrove Tuesday, 1634-35: see Preface to The Platonic Lovers (D'Avenant's Works, ed. Maidment and Logan, 1872, ii. 3-5), and cf. Goblins, IV., ii., below. Cowley, in The Mistress, has two poems on this