Give me a lover bold and free, Not eunuched with formality.
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Like an ambassador that beds a queen With the nice caution of a sword between.
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Birth: | 16th June, 1613 |
Death: | 29th April, 1658 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Poet |
John Cleveland was born in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. He was an English poet who supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. He earned a BA degree from Christ's College, Cambridge in 1632. He became a fellow of St John's College in 1634, where he became a college tutor and lecturer on rhetoric. He wrote several poems include: Poems, 1653, The Poems of John Cleveland, and The Character of a London Diurnal.
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