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A
Boy is Born
In
the year of 1647, anno domini, on April's Fools day at 11:07 AM,
a boy was born in Oxfordshire, England. The mother was Anne
Wilmot, a housewife at Ditchley Park. The father was Henry
Wilmot, the first earl of Rochester. Henry was not present at
the birth. Along with his prince, Charles, later Charles the II
of England, he caroused in exile in Paris. The boy John was to
live a short, but violent life. A seventeenth-century
astrologist read his future thus: |
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He
was born anno 1647, on April the 1st day, 11h. 7m. a.m., and
endued with a noble and fertile muse. The sun governed the
horoscope, and the moon ruled the birth hours. The conjunction
of Venus and Mercury in M. Coeli, in sextile of Luna, aptly
denotes his inclination to poetry. The great reception of Sol
with Mars and Jupiter posited so near the latter, bestowed a
large stock of generous and active spirits, which constantly
attended on this native’s mind, insomuch that no subject came
amiss to him. |
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