ROCHESTER, JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF

ROCHESTER, JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF
   a witty profligate of the court of Charles II.; wrote poems, many of them licentious, among them, however, some exquisite songs; killed himself with his debauchery; died penitent; he was the author of the epitaph, accounted the best epigram in the English language, "Here lies our sovereign Lord the king," &c. (1648-1680).

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