 Sir John Suckling is readily recognisable in "The Court Beggar" in the character of the mad Sir Ferdinando, who shares Suckling's passion for cribbage and his compulsive gambling and womanising.The play alludes to an incident in which Suckling accepted a beating rather than fight a duel; contemporary audiences could have had little doubt as to the target of the satire.Brome also targets Davenant as the courtly hanger-on Court-Wit.