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The last remains of Sr John Suckling

Being a Full collection Of all his Poems and Letters which have been so long expected, and never till now Published, with The Licence and Approbation of his Noble and Dearest friends

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A Candle.

There is a thing which in the Light
Is seldom us'd, but in the Night
It serves the Maiden Female crew,
The Ladies, and the Good-wives too:
They use to take it in their hand,
And then it will uprightly stand;
And to a hole they it apply,
Where by its good will it would dye:

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It spends, goes out, and still within
It leaves its moisture thick and thin.
J. S.