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John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

See John Wilmot Rochester for pseudonymous works by the Russian spiritualist V.I. Kryzhanovskaya.

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester was an English libertine, a friend of King Charles II, and the writer of much satirical and bawdy poetry.

He was the toast of the Restoration court and a patron of the arts. He married an heiress, Elizabeth Malet, but had many mistresses, including the actress Elizabeth Barry and drank himself to death at the tender age of 33.


“I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind.”
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
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