“For pointed satire I would Buckhurst choose,
The best good man with the worst-natured muse.”

— John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

An allusion to Horace, Satire x. Book i. Compare: "Thou best-humour'd man with the worst-humour'd muse!", Oliver Goldsmith, Retaliation, Postscript.
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English poet, and peer of the realm 1647–1680

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