• All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on, From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.

    John Wilmot: All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on,
From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.
    John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.74, Taylor & Francis