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John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester – The Wild Man of the Restoration (2014)
- cafard 10y agoMany pages of poetry that would get a trigger warning today, but a handful of very good poems.
- andrewl 10y agoI read this one years ago, said of King Charles II: We have a pretty witty king, Whose word no man relies on, He never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one. Charles is reported to have said it was true, because his words were his own, but his actions were those of his ministers.