Excerpt from The Poems of Richard Lovelace: Lucasta, Etc On leaving the university he attended the cour in great splendour, and being patronized by Lorc Goring (afterward Earl of Norwich), was by bin sent with the Scotch expedition, in 1639, servin as an ensign; in the second expedition he ob tained a captain's commission and it was abou this time he wrote a tragedy called the Soldier which has never been printed; and, the stage being soon after suppressed, was never acted.

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