Excerpt from The Pembroke Booklets: Sir John Suckling, Ballads and Other Poems; Sir Charles Sedley, Lyrics; John Wilmot (Earl of Rochester), Poems and Songs One day his poor sisters came to the Piccadilly bowl ing-green, crying for the fear he should lose all their fortunes. To show his elasticity of spirit, we are told that, when at his lowest ebb, he would put on his most glorious apparel. It may be questioned, however, if all the tall stories told of his extremes of good and ill fortune are true. In a romancing age like the Caroline any prominent person soon acquired his legend, and suckling's large estates must have been a main stay.

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