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    Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman ... never gave offence to anyone, not even the enemy.
    —A.J.P. (Alan John Percivale)

    Thus while I sit and sigh the day
    With all his borrow’d lights away,
    Till night’s black wings do overtake me,
    Thinking on thee, thy beauties then,
    As sudden lights do sleepy men,
    So they by their bright rays awake me.
    —Sir John Suckling (1609–1642)