Namesakes: by Slave Scribbler ----------------------------- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester In Restoration times, Kept gossips' tongues at Court astir By writing bawdy rhymes And leading such a dissolute Rhyme-imitating life As e'en its gay King did not suit, Still less his Lady wife, Who could not bring him to behave Or mind her moral checks. So Earl R. got the early grave Due for surfeit of sex. Had Lady R. then known the tricks She who now bears that name Possesses as dominatrix Such foolish men to tame, He could have reached his eightieth year, As well-trained slave then died; Coffined, his neck would collar bear, And cane-marks his backside.
