“So, when my Days of Impotence approach,
And I’m by Pox and Wine’s unlucky chance
Driv'n from the pleasing Billows of debauch
On the dull Shore of lazy Temperance;My Pains at least some Respite shall afford
While I behold the Battles you maintain
When Fleets of Glasses sail about the Board,
From whose Broad-sides Volleys of Wit shall rain.”

— John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

The Maim'd Debauchee, ll. 13–20.
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English poet, and peer of the realm 1647–1680

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