Make poems not war.
Doug
On 2011-07-07, at 6:28 PM, Max Richards wrote:
> From tls online, review of Reprobates, John Stubb's book on the Cavaliers:
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> Through the eyes of militant parliamentarians, these fashionable courtiers
> who sang of wine and women, dressed in silks, and swaggered arrogantly from
> tavern to theatre were degenerates, reprobate “roaring boys”. The theatre
> had always the potential for riot, but theatricality itself seemed part of
> the problem. When Suckling raised a troop of horse for the king’s military
> expedition north in 1638, he wanted to make a spectacle. He chose “very
> handsome young proper men” and kitted them out lavishly in white doublets
> and scarlet breeches, with coats, hats and feathers to match, making sure
> they had the best mounts and were fully armed. It cost him an estimated
> £12,000. The episode ended ignominiously and balladeers went to town on
> Suckling’s “Hundred Horse”. Suckling was an easy target, one of the
> “prodigal children”, as a Puritan pamphlet of 1641 put it, “acting your
> parts of hotspur Cavaliers and disguised ding-thrifts”, with “a noyse of
> renegade Fidlers, Musicke-abusers” ever in their ears.
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