Here lies our mutton-looking king, Whose word no man relied on, Who never said a foolish thing No ever did a wise one.

Royalty Quotes, by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester , Source: another version of Rochester's Epitaph on Charles II included in the works of Quarles

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Here lies our sovereign lord, the king, Whose word no man relives on, Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.

Royalty Quotes, by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester , Source: to Charles II, who answered, "That is very true, for my words are my own. My actions are my minister

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A merry monarch, scandalous and poor.

Royalty Quotes, by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester , Source: On the King

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Nothing, thou elder brother e'en to shade.

Nothingness Quotes, by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester , Source: Poem on Nothing

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