“Reason, an Ignis fatuus of the Mind,
Which leaves the light of Nature, Sense, behind.”

—  John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

ll. 12-13.
A Satire Against Mankind (1679)

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English poet, and peer of the realm 1647–1680

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