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Rochester
the King of Smut
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 There is also in the same drawer a collection of my Lord of
Rochester's poems, written before his penitence, in a style I thought unfit to mix with my other books. However pray let it remain there; for as he is past writing any more so bad in one sense, so I despair of any man surviving him to write so good in another.
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Samuel
Pepys' diary, 1680
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Rochester..., from
the corruptions of that court, in which he lived, seems to have
thrown off all regard to shame and decency.
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David
Hume, Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences, 1742
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In
many discourses with [Rochester] I saw into the depths of Satan.
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Bishop
Gilbert Burnet, History of my own Time, 1724
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