Friday, February 17, 2012

John Suckling (1609-1642)


More information here. I was already a big fan of his for being the author of one of my favourite little poems ('Love is the fart / Of every heart: / It pains a man when 'tis kept close, / And others doth offend, when 'tis let loose.'), but when I found out that he invented cribbage, I was lost.

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