Speaker 1: Hey everybody, Hey, hey, hey, hey, my name is Eli.
Speaker 1: I'm Diana, my beautiful wife Diana here she is. I
Speaker 1: mean my uh no, you know what, my grotesque wife hideous. No,
Speaker 1: it's fair because I'm trying to keep the suitors away.
Speaker 1: I don't want them to know that you're gorgeous, so
Speaker 1: I'm trying to scare them off. You're the one who
Speaker 1: wanted to start filming this, oh ship, you can see Damn.
Speaker 1: I'll just blur your face out, okay, or I'll put
Speaker 1: like a little troll gift over you, a gift. The
Speaker 1: whole time, I did love troll dolls growing up. I
Speaker 1: have a bunch at my mouth. I wasn't thinking like
Speaker 1: the cute trolls. I was thinking like the trolls from Willow.
Speaker 1: But that way, no, um, no fellas out there or
Speaker 1: or no even industrious ladies who might really put their
Speaker 1: minds to it, none of them are going to steal
Speaker 1: you away. Well. I don't love that, but all right,
Speaker 1: you don't love that. I don't want you stolen a way.
Speaker 1: I don't love having my face covered up with a troll. Well,
Speaker 1: but it's for a romantic purpose, is it. Yeah? I
Speaker 1: want you all to myself. So I'm gonna lock you
Speaker 1: in a room, never let anyone see your face, and
Speaker 1: uh then you'll be mine forever. That's that. Come on,
Speaker 1: that's any fairy tale prints, but basically do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they're so problematic, have you ever? Okay, look, welcome
Speaker 1: back to the show, everybody, or welcome to the show
Speaker 1: new listeners. Because the ridiculous romantic cult is growing every week.
Speaker 1: There's something I got to talk about, Diana, you know
Speaker 1: what it is? Oh my god, y'all, we won't okay.
Speaker 1: I usually try to keep this down to like five
Speaker 1: minutes a banter or less before we get to the show.
Speaker 1: So we saw our our our theaters are are freaking ore.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I don't know. I can't. I'm telling
Speaker 1: you when I tell you, I haven't been just ear
Speaker 1: to ear grinning for three eight hours since I was
Speaker 1: a child. I can't believe this movie. It was so
Speaker 1: like it was dumb. How good it was, I don't
Speaker 1: get it. And we also were very fortunate because we
Speaker 1: get to see it at the Plaza Theater. It's like
Speaker 1: a historic theater in Atlanta, one of the coolest places,
Speaker 1: and the room it was very full, screening and everybody's
Speaker 1: just hooting and hollering and having a blast. It was
Speaker 1: just so much fun. So if you get a chance
Speaker 1: to see it in a theater, I highly recommend. I
Speaker 1: had told someone it made me feel really good about
Speaker 1: humanity in this way, not just the movie itself, which
Speaker 1: did in a in a really great way, but just
Speaker 1: the experience of seeing it with a crowd of people
Speaker 1: and being like, oh, man, I really love it when
Speaker 1: a bunch of people are all just having a good
Speaker 1: time and we're like, oh, this is why we're here,
Speaker 1: right to like have fun and laugh and be excited. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's the best thing about groups of people. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: I'm so used to like, let's say, d iving, which
Speaker 1: makes you very angry about being in groups of people,
Speaker 1: or the grocery store things like that where I'm like, Oh,
Speaker 1: I just want to go live in the woods, kill
Speaker 1: them all. And then the end of this movie, I
Speaker 1: was like, man, I'm so glad that I was with
Speaker 1: all these other people watching this. Yeah, that was that's
Speaker 1: very true. Again, I really feel like seeing it in
Speaker 1: the theater with everybody willing to like hoot and holler
Speaker 1: and react was just just a beautiful cherry on top.
Speaker 1: And if you're like me, like I can't stand people
Speaker 1: talking and making noise and stuff during movies, but there's
Speaker 1: times where it's like joyful and that's what this was.
Speaker 1: You needed it and it it added so much and
Speaker 1: it wasn't like, oh, you're interrupting or I can't hear
Speaker 1: what's going on. Bonus that the movie is mostly not
Speaker 1: in English, so it's all subtitled for the most part,
Speaker 1: so you were going to miss any dialogue. People could
Speaker 1: scream and you're like, I still know what's happening. I
Speaker 1: have not missed anything because that did help. Go see it. However,
Speaker 1: you can just see it's incredible, incredible. So that's gonna
Speaker 1: be our banter for the day because we got a
Speaker 1: awesome story to get Yeah, because today we want to
Speaker 1: talk to you about John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester,
Speaker 1: and you might remember his name if you cast your
Speaker 1: memory back and you had listened to our episode about
Speaker 1: the Brief History of sex Toys that we did with
Speaker 1: Ridiculous History. We invited them to Poetry Corner to read
Speaker 1: some of Wilmot's poem signor Dildo, where he was talking
Speaker 1: about the new sex toy out of Italy. I think
Speaker 1: that one. I think so too. They were excited to
Speaker 1: read a sense I'm senior Dildo. But as a fan
Speaker 1: of the show and mother of the host, Barbara Banks said,
Speaker 1: this guy deserves his own episode because he had like
Speaker 1: a bunch of affairs. He abducted an heiress, he disguised
Speaker 1: himself as a gynecologist, and he wrote some of the
Speaker 1: dirtiest poetry of the Restoration era, not just Senor Dildo,
Speaker 1: about other things. So let's hear about the body poet
Speaker 1: and the sharpest wit in King Charles's court, John Wilmot,
Speaker 1: the second Earl of rochest Yes, let's go, Hey the French,
Speaker 1: come listen. Well, Elia and Diana got some stories to tell.
Speaker 1: There's no matchmaking, a romantic tips. It's just about ridiculous relationships,
Speaker 1: a love. It might be any type of person at all,
Speaker 1: and abstract cons at a concrete wall. But if there's
Speaker 1: a story, were the second glance Ridiculous Romans a production
Speaker 1: of I Heart Radio. So John Wilmot was born on
Speaker 1: April Fool's Day in sixty seven. To Henry Wilmot, it's
Speaker 1: a perfect day for him to be born. Already have
Speaker 1: a fool. You've set yourself up for a wacky life.
Speaker 1: I'm ready to be the King's jester right now. He
Speaker 1: was born to Henry Wilmot, who had been created the
Speaker 1: Earl of Rochest because he pretty much singlehandedly helped Charles
Speaker 1: the Second escape to the continent after Oliver Cromwell and
Speaker 1: his cronies executed Charles the First made England into a
Speaker 1: republic and Cromwell started ruling as the Lord Protectorate. Great. Okay,
Speaker 1: so people get mad at the king drop his head off,
Speaker 1: and his son, Charles the Second, I assume, was like,
Speaker 1: somebody get me out of here. Yeah, because after the
Speaker 1: Battle of Wooster. Mm hmmm. Which I think that's how
Speaker 1: you say. It's spelled Worcester, but I think it's pronounced
Speaker 1: in Boston it's Wooster. I don't know or not. That's
Speaker 1: a good point. They might in England they might say.
Speaker 1: Well anyway, so he basically helped him escape and and
Speaker 1: survive in exile. This is known as the Interregnum period
Speaker 1: of English history, and Cromwell and his government were Puritans,
Speaker 1: and they basically thought people should not have any fun whatsoever,
Speaker 1: so they outlawed theater, partying, music, and literally Christmas like
Speaker 1: they canceled Christmas. I'm sorry, So there was really a
Speaker 1: war on Christmas in English legit war on Christmas Like
Speaker 1: it was illegal to be found buying food associated with
Speaker 1: the Christmas pief. I guess a boiled goose. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but if you were walking out the grocery store with
Speaker 1: a roast, they would clap you. In Irons, I guess
Speaker 1: they even had cops patrolling the streets busting people for
Speaker 1: singing carols. I mean, didn't say pretty joyless. Eleven years well,
Speaker 1: thanks in part to Henry Wilmot, Charles the Second was
Speaker 1: able to stay alive. He was crowned the King of
Speaker 1: Scotland and Ireland after Cromwell's death, and then he came
Speaker 1: on home and restored the monarchy for better or worse,
Speaker 1: which is why his reign is known as the Restoration Period. Okay,
Speaker 1: so Charles the Second obviously had a lot of reason
Speaker 1: to be pretty grateful to old Henry you know very much?
Speaker 1: Uh oh, you will favor us. Definitely saved my life
Speaker 1: and put me back on the throw and I can
Speaker 1: get back to having Christmas parties again, thank you. So
Speaker 1: after Henry died in sixty eight. The King showed his
Speaker 1: appreciation by taking an interest in his son John. So
Speaker 1: John was privately tutored from the age of seven, and
Speaker 1: when he was twelve he attended Wadham College, Oxford, which
Speaker 1: was pretty newly established. This college wasn't really like that
Speaker 1: respected yet, and so it was kind of a party school.
Speaker 1: No one looking around saying, now you have to respect
Speaker 1: the history of Warham College at Oxford. They're like, no,
Speaker 1: we down. This place is brand new. Let's suck it
Speaker 1: up twice story. Let's like, I don't know why they
Speaker 1: sound like that. Electric's the rolling Stones. So little John
Speaker 1: Wilmot's tutor was this guy, Robert Whitehall. And this guy
Speaker 1: was a hard drinker, but he was quite the wit
Speaker 1: of his day, snippy and sarcastic and literary, quick minded,
Speaker 1: and under this guy's influence, John quote grew debauched. So
Speaker 1: Robert Whitehall is out there teaching him. You who are
Speaker 1: not just going to teach you how to rot beautifully
Speaker 1: and and learn your your scholarly duties, but you're gonna
Speaker 1: learn how to drink and gamble and womanizes all the hits,
Speaker 1: learn to have a little fun. Yeah, I want you
Speaker 1: to be not just book smart, but street smart, and
Speaker 1: not just street smart but ladies smart, cheek smart, sheets smart.
Speaker 1: But it is a cheek smart, which is also pretty smart.
Speaker 1: If you're smart around a pair of cheeks, he can
Speaker 1: you can go far in this world. I guess that's true.
Speaker 1: I didn't think about it like that, but all right.
Speaker 1: When John was fourteen, he was given an honorary masters
Speaker 1: and Charles the Second awarded him a five hundred pound
Speaker 1: per year pension to live on. He also had John
Speaker 1: sent on the Grand Tool of Europe, which is this
Speaker 1: three year trip through France and Italy, you know, all
Speaker 1: of Europe. You know. Well, when John got home in
Speaker 1: sixteen sixty four, he joined Charles's restoration court at only
Speaker 1: seventeen years old. He made his bows oddly enough on
Speaker 1: Christmas Day, which of course had been fully restored at
Speaker 1: this point. Because of course Charles the Second came in
Speaker 1: and was like, we're bringing back Christmas everyone. I love
Speaker 1: a party. Grab your turkey's deck the halls, you know,
Speaker 1: light up the lights. Seed the reindeer, seed the reindeer. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: Wilmot may have been an earl, but his family didn't
Speaker 1: really have that much money. Besides this pension from the
Speaker 1: King's sort of an impoverished title. So Charles the second
Speaker 1: suggested that he marry a wealthy heiress named Elizabeth Mallett,
Speaker 1: because then he'd have money and Elizabeth would be a countess.
Speaker 1: Everybody wins, and she was into it. She wrote quote.
Speaker 1: He was had some tall, graceful, well shaped. His complexion
Speaker 1: was fair of a rosie hue, and his good reading
Speaker 1: and wit were striking. He was far too attractive for
Speaker 1: a flirtatious fifteen year old to reject out of hand. Moreover,
Speaker 1: he could write the sort of fashionable, amorous, pastoral poetry
Speaker 1: that delighted my girlish heart. Fashionable, amorous and pastoral poetry.
Speaker 1: I'm going to hang onto that description for later. Keep
Speaker 1: that one, keep that one for yourself. But Elizabeth's family
Speaker 1: was less enthused because they wanted Elizabeth to marry somebody rich.
Speaker 1: They want to add to the coffers titles at everything.
Speaker 1: They were like, there's a title out there that also
Speaker 1: has money, Get that guy instead of poor poet dude
Speaker 1: or whatever. But did our seventeen year old hottie give up?
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. Instead, John Wilmot did the late sixteen hundreds
Speaker 1: version of Lloyd Dabbler holding the boom box over his head.
Speaker 1: He abducted her, not I don't remember saying anything differently, Weirdly,
Speaker 1: apparently he hatched this plot with his mother. She was like,
Speaker 1: go get this rich bitch right now, we're going to
Speaker 1: snatch her up. But you know, John, he did it
Speaker 1: with style. Samuel Pepys, who is best known for keeping
Speaker 1: a diary for ten years that Shirley historians are probably
Speaker 1: constantly thinking they're like he stars for he described the
Speaker 1: scandal in his journal, saying, quote, thence to my Lady Sandwiches,
Speaker 1: where I told her a story of my Lord Rochester's
Speaker 1: running away on Friday night last with Miss Mallett, the
Speaker 1: great beauty and fortune of the North, who had supped
Speaker 1: at Whitehall with Mrs Stewart and was going home to
Speaker 1: her lodgings with her grandfather, my Lord Hailey by coach,
Speaker 1: and was at Charing Cross, seized on by both horse
Speaker 1: and footman, and forcibly taken from him and put into
Speaker 1: a coach with sick horces and two women provided to
Speaker 1: receive her and carried away. Now what an abduction. Amazing
Speaker 1: how he straight up stole her from her grandfather's carriage,
Speaker 1: stuffed her into another one six horses, getting the hell out. Okay,
Speaker 1: he wanted to go fast as hell. So I really
Speaker 1: wanted to point this out because in some of my
Speaker 1: favorite georget highre books, they talk about guys trying to
Speaker 1: elope with a like a coach and pair, and everyone's like,
Speaker 1: what a shabby a fair at least get four? So disappointed?
Speaker 1: What is that? What are you pour? It's like rolling
Speaker 1: up and up, you know, a nineteen nineties six Honda Civic,
Speaker 1: being like, I'm stealing you away, my dear baby, get
Speaker 1: in the car. I know. But also please note he
Speaker 1: had two women there to receive her, so he wasn't
Speaker 1: trying to ruin her reputation and forced her into marriage.
Speaker 1: She was going to be respectably chaperone the entire time.
Speaker 1: So still a very scandalous behavior. But he still did
Speaker 1: have like he was thinking about her comfort, and it
Speaker 1: wasn't I mean, she did respond to his affections, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, she cared a lot about him. I don't
Speaker 1: think she liked this, but she liked I don't know,
Speaker 1: kind of exciting if your true love comes and rescue
Speaker 1: rescues you from you know, marrying someone you're not as
Speaker 1: excited about, right, I thought I thought she might have
Speaker 1: been a little like, oh he really like yeah, I
Speaker 1: love Also he rolls up with with six horses, like,
Speaker 1: who's Paul? Now? I know, right, he really spending that
Speaker 1: on some stuff. It was it was my whole pension.
Speaker 1: But that's how much you mean to me, girl. Well,
Speaker 1: after this kidnapping, John was pretty much immediately caught. Now
Speaker 1: Elizabeth went back home to her family. The King was
Speaker 1: super passed. He's like, my buddy, my guy, I'm giving
Speaker 1: you this money. I'm setting you up. You can't go
Speaker 1: kidnapping rich girls. You look crazy now I looked dumb
Speaker 1: for vouching for you. So Lord Rochester was sent to
Speaker 1: the town hour of London for three weeks to think
Speaker 1: about what he'd done. He wasn't released until he wrote
Speaker 1: a penitent apology to the King. Although we got to say,
Speaker 1: it feels like it feels like maybe Lord Holly might
Speaker 1: have been like thinking, like I get an apology, kind
Speaker 1: of stole my granddaughter right out of my own carriage.
Speaker 1: I was sitting right there these days. But Rochester wanted
Speaker 1: to redeem himself, so he volunteered for the Navy in
Speaker 1: the Second Dutch War in the winter of sixteen sixty five,
Speaker 1: and his courageous actions made him a war hero. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he probably did a pretty good job stealing supplies from
Speaker 1: enemy lines. I imagine, right, my specialty, give me six
Speaker 1: horses and twenty four hours you'll have all the cannons
Speaker 1: doated on by two handmaidens. No less, that's right. But yeah,
Speaker 1: this this war had a really important effect on this
Speaker 1: personality because one of his friends was like standing right
Speaker 1: next to Rochester when he got blown away by a
Speaker 1: cannon ball, and Rochester had to keep on fighting basically
Speaker 1: covered in his friends remain very crazy, just you know,
Speaker 1: wartime trauma. And it's around then that he kind of
Speaker 1: became an atheist and pretty nihilistic and sort of sort
Speaker 1: of became the skeptic that will see in his poetry
Speaker 1: later on. And yeah, I mean it's no wonder I
Speaker 1: think you you fight a war and you start to
Speaker 1: ask like why a lot why a lot um? But
Speaker 1: his heroism in battle did make Charles so pleased with
Speaker 1: Rochester that he appointed him a Gentleman of the Bedchamber
Speaker 1: in sixteen six which sounds sexy. I've been called a
Speaker 1: gentleman of the bed chamber myself a few times who
Speaker 1: called you that. No, this was less sexy than it sounds.
Speaker 1: It basically entitled John to some nice lodgings and a
Speaker 1: thousand pounds a year in exchange for one week out
Speaker 1: of the month where he would help the king dress
Speaker 1: and undress, he would serve him meals, and he would
Speaker 1: sleep at the foot of his bit. And this was
Speaker 1: like a really big honor to be a gentleman of
Speaker 1: the bed chamber, which kind of makes sense because you're
Speaker 1: really close to the king. He tried, clearly trusts you
Speaker 1: a lot. I'm sure there's like a little bed down there,
Speaker 1: but of course I see him sleeping at the foot
Speaker 1: of the thing's bed like a like a like a doberman.
Speaker 1: You know, he's got a little water dish on the
Speaker 1: floor of bone. Now. Later that same year, Rochester returned
Speaker 1: to the Navy, and he again distinguished himself by delivering messages.
Speaker 1: That sounds kind of boring, but it was not, because
Speaker 1: before radio and waukie talkies and stuff, a real guy
Speaker 1: just had to like run around a battlefield for in
Speaker 1: this case, row between ships and a fleet under fire
Speaker 1: to relay orders from the captain or the general or
Speaker 1: commander or whoever was in charge. So you had to
Speaker 1: be very quick, you had to be bold, you had
Speaker 1: to be incredibly brave. So Rochester was even more of
Speaker 1: a legend when he came home. Yeah, I mean, you're
Speaker 1: probably targeting that guy easily got all the orders exactly.
Speaker 1: They're like, they'll be scattered and confused. So very very
Speaker 1: crazy job. Just a crazy job, hard pass. Now. John
Speaker 1: distinguished himself enough that King Charles the Second gave him
Speaker 1: a special lisense to enter the House of Lords early,
Speaker 1: even though he was seven months under age. So everything
Speaker 1: was coming up Wilmot. Even Elizabeth Mallett decided to forgive
Speaker 1: him for, you know, kidnapping her from her grandfather, and
Speaker 1: she ended up eloping with him again by choice. This
Speaker 1: time she actually wanted to, and in this she defied
Speaker 1: her family. She married him in secret in January of
Speaker 1: sixteen sixty seven, and they ended up having four children together.
Speaker 1: And it seems like John Wilmot really did love her.
Speaker 1: One of his poems is dedicated to her. So let's
Speaker 1: go down to poetry corner and here to my more
Speaker 1: than meritorious wife by John Wilmot I am by fate
Speaker 1: slave to your will, and I will be obedient still
Speaker 1: to show my love. I will compose ye for your
Speaker 1: fair fingers, ring a posey in which shall be expressed
Speaker 1: my duty, and how I'll be forever true to ye,
Speaker 1: with low made legs and sugared speeches, yielding to your
Speaker 1: fair bum the breeches, and shoo myself and all I can.
Speaker 1: You're very humble servant. Jam Wow, I gotta say, I
Speaker 1: really respect that big stretch in their rhyming duty with
Speaker 1: true to ye. I love it, true to ye, clever.
Speaker 1: And then he's like, I know my name is John,
Speaker 1: but we're just gonna stay. We're just gonna get the rhyming.
Speaker 1: That's the poets do, and they manipulate language until it fits. Look,
Speaker 1: and here's the thing. You know, John Wilmot didn't really
Speaker 1: yield to her fair bum the breeches because he had
Speaker 1: tons of blings with both men and women throughout his life.
Speaker 1: We're going to get into that right after this break.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, everybody. Yeah. So John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Speaker 1: is doing pretty good at this point in his life.
Speaker 1: He's around twenty years old. He's making moves in Parliament
Speaker 1: is married to this hot, rich lady. Um, he's a
Speaker 1: favorite Charles the Second, And he's hanging out with the
Speaker 1: Merry Gang, which was like a bunch of dudes who
Speaker 1: were a lot like John in that they were tight
Speaker 1: with the King, and they like to get drunk, half sex,
Speaker 1: get rowdy, and write ribald rhymes and satires. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd be a Merry Gang too. I know. It sounds
Speaker 1: like a pretty fun life. These guys partied so hard
Speaker 1: that John and Wilmot himself told his friend, the historian
Speaker 1: Gilbert Burnett that quote. For five years together, he was
Speaker 1: continually drunk and not perfectly master of himself, which led
Speaker 1: him to do many wild and unaccountable things. Rochester, I
Speaker 1: love not perfectly master of myself. That's such a great
Speaker 1: way to put exactly fully in control of the things
Speaker 1: I was doing. I was telling myself to stop, and
Speaker 1: I wouldn't now. Rochester described this life in another one
Speaker 1: of his poems, probably one of my favorites. So let's
Speaker 1: head on down to poetry Corner once more, and here
Speaker 1: regime de vive. I rise at eleven, I dine about two,
Speaker 1: I get drunk before seven, And the next thing I
Speaker 1: do I send for my whore, when, for fear of
Speaker 1: a clap, I spend in her hand and I spew
Speaker 1: in her lap. Then we quarrel and scold till I
Speaker 1: fall fast asleep. When the bitch, growing bold to my pocket,
Speaker 1: does creep. Then slyly she leaves me, and to revenge
Speaker 1: the affront at once she bereaves me of money and cunt.
Speaker 1: If by chance, then I wake hothead it and drunk.
Speaker 1: What a coil do I make for the loss of
Speaker 1: my punk? I storm and I roar, and I fall
Speaker 1: in a rage and missing my horn. I blug on
Speaker 1: my page, then cropsic All morning, I rail at my men,
Speaker 1: and in bed I lie yawning till eleven again. I'm
Speaker 1: sorry that poem is my favorite column. He straight up like,
Speaker 1: I got this mistress, and she rolled me for my
Speaker 1: dough and dipped out spending her hand and I spew
Speaker 1: in her lap with a sport girl she should steal,
Speaker 1: And I wonder she stole his money and ran. She's like,
Speaker 1: what what am I would you? I'm here for free,
Speaker 1: you know I'm not, Oh my god, And then he
Speaker 1: yells at his friends all night, falls asleep, and then
Speaker 1: it wakes up and it starts all over. Seriously, it's
Speaker 1: so good. Oh man, oh the life, you know, but
Speaker 1: honestly the light and I love that. At the end
Speaker 1: of it, King Charles is paying for this, right, He's like, thanks,
Speaker 1: bro for financing my lifestyle. The list sounds so great.
Speaker 1: I love it too, because you can tell he sounds
Speaker 1: a little bored by it even like he's like, it's
Speaker 1: still kind of like just the same ship every day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, now, King Charles the Second is known as
Speaker 1: the playboy King. He had like something like fourteen mistresses.
Speaker 1: He had a bunch of illegitimate children running around. He
Speaker 1: definitely set the tone for this court. There's a reason
Speaker 1: that he liked men like the Earl of Rochester. It
Speaker 1: starts at the top exactly, and like one of the
Speaker 1: first things that he did when he was restored to
Speaker 1: the monarchy in sixteen sixty was to allow a lot
Speaker 1: of the stuff that Cromwell and the Puritans had banned,
Speaker 1: like Christmas, but also theater. And this time Charles legalized
Speaker 1: acting as a profession for women, which is so funny
Speaker 1: because we were just talking about that in our William
Speaker 1: Dorsey Swan. I didn't know King Charles the Second was
Speaker 1: the one who did that. But that was cool to
Speaker 1: find probably sleeping with some girl who was like, hey, buddy,
Speaker 1: can I get on stage please? I kind of wondered
Speaker 1: if it was like because so many aristocrats ended up
Speaker 1: finding their mistresses through opera and theater. I was like,
Speaker 1: I wonder if King Charles was like, man, you know,
Speaker 1: if these orange seller girls could be on stage, would
Speaker 1: be a lot easier to see how pretty they are,
Speaker 1: and I can meet them later. So he's just trying
Speaker 1: to increase his own choice. I don't know, he's like,
Speaker 1: let me wine the net. I don't know, but Nell
Speaker 1: Gwinn was one of his favorite mistresses, um and she
Speaker 1: started as an orange seller at the theater, and I wonder,
Speaker 1: I just wonder if he's like, I don't see these
Speaker 1: orange sellers. I'm the king. They don't sell me orange,
Speaker 1: but I need to be able to look at them
Speaker 1: put them on stage. I'm sick of looking all these dudes.
Speaker 1: A stick of this, which I also like in our version,
Speaker 1: the reason women are allowed on stage just because men
Speaker 1: are pigs. I mean, it's like, doesn't exactly empower that, really, doesn't,
Speaker 1: you know? I don't know whatever, I guess it got
Speaker 1: me to where I want to be, so, like we said,
Speaker 1: one of the women to benefit from this new profession
Speaker 1: was Nell Gwynn, who was Charles the second Mistress. She
Speaker 1: had a lot of influence with him. But before she
Speaker 1: hooked up with Charles, she quote more than likely had
Speaker 1: a brief fling with John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester. Now,
Speaker 1: after the passion cooled, they remained pretty close friends, and
Speaker 1: her influence at court and with Charles really helped Rochester
Speaker 1: the many many times he was in disgrace with the King.
Speaker 1: But it was another actress that John Wilmot's name is
Speaker 1: linked to the most, and that brings us to this
Speaker 1: episode side piece. Yea, Elizabeth Barry was an actress, but
Speaker 1: her first performance at the age of seventeen was so
Speaker 1: terrible that she was immediately fired from the company she
Speaker 1: was working for. It Fortunately for her, she met On Wilmot,
Speaker 1: the Earl of Rochester, in sixteen seventy three, and he
Speaker 1: apparently started training her as an actress. Now, there's no
Speaker 1: details as to why Rochester was qualified to be an
Speaker 1: acting coach. I mean, I mean, you know, he did
Speaker 1: have a flair for language, right, he didn't have a
Speaker 1: love for the ladies. Maybe that's all it took. I
Speaker 1: know some acting coaches now who that's that's pretty much
Speaker 1: their qualifications. I love the ladies and I can talk good.
Speaker 1: Learn how to act for me four dollars please. You
Speaker 1: got to be careful out there aspiring actors. John Wilmot
Speaker 1: must have been pretty good at it, though, because eventually
Speaker 1: Elizabeth became the most famous actress of the Restoration period,
Speaker 1: and all this despite the fact that she was not
Speaker 1: known as a beauty by any means. In fact, one
Speaker 1: anonymous author wrote in a seventeen of two book called
Speaker 1: a Comparison between the Two Stages that she was quote
Speaker 1: the ugliest woman in the real world, the finest woman
Speaker 1: in the world upon the stage. And Elizabeth Barry was
Speaker 1: probably like anonymous coward, come here and say to my faith, right,
Speaker 1: or she was like, yeah, well whatever said beauty subjective.
Speaker 1: I mean, she definitely had something that John Wilmot liked,
Speaker 1: because they were together for five years. They even had
Speaker 1: a daughter together. But has her success grew, John got
Speaker 1: kind of jealous. Probably she just had like a lot
Speaker 1: more demands on her time. She didn't have as much
Speaker 1: you know, she didn't need him as much as she
Speaker 1: had before. He's like, I'm I'm making time away from
Speaker 1: my wife and you can't do the same for your craft.
Speaker 1: I need to spend in your hat. Hurry up. She's like,
Speaker 1: you vomited in my lap one too many times. Pal,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know exactly, but that's what
Speaker 1: they say. Got a little resentful, and they eventually broke up,
Speaker 1: and in his poem upon leaving his mistress, Rochester famously wrote, quote,
Speaker 1: with what face can I incline to? Damn you? To
Speaker 1: be only mine? Live up to thy mighty mind, and
Speaker 1: be the mistress of mankind. When she retired at fifty
Speaker 1: two in seventeen ten, she was one of the greatest
Speaker 1: tragic actresses of her time. She had a career that
Speaker 1: lasted thirty five years, and although Rochester is known to
Speaker 1: have had many affairs through his life, hers is kind
Speaker 1: of the only name that we can find. Otherwise likely
Speaker 1: it was like nameless actresses, servants, prostitutes who kind of
Speaker 1: enjoyed his special ski, his routine, his routine at his
Speaker 1: regime d VIV seven o'clock, where's my lap? Besides all this,
Speaker 1: Rochester was always busy getting into trouble. He had been
Speaker 1: banned from court once before, in sixteen sixty nine, when
Speaker 1: he punched a playwright in the ear in front of
Speaker 1: the King. This was considered a less magest offense, and
Speaker 1: it didn't take long for him to get welcomed back.
Speaker 1: But then he messed up again because on Christmas of
Speaker 1: sixty three, Charles asked for a copy of one of
Speaker 1: his poems, and by accident, Rochester reached into his little
Speaker 1: bag and he handed him the wrong one. It was
Speaker 1: a pretty biting lampoon of the King himself. This wasn't
Speaker 1: always a problem because once Rochester read this little witticism quote,
Speaker 1: we have a pretty witty king whose word no man
Speaker 1: relies on. He never said a foolish thing and never
Speaker 1: did a wise one. That's pretty good. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1: But King Charles supposedly kind of chuckled and said back, quote,
Speaker 1: that's true for my words on my own, but my
Speaker 1: actions are those of my ministers. Ah, anybody, pretty good
Speaker 1: sings rested, everyone laugh, I'm the king, so you know
Speaker 1: that was That was a quick singer, and Charles took
Speaker 1: it in stride. But this time maybe Rochester had gone
Speaker 1: a little too far, or maybe Charles just couldn't think
Speaker 1: up a witty response quickly, so he again banished the
Speaker 1: Earl of Rochester for months. But what was this poem
Speaker 1: that made the king so angry? Well, let's go back
Speaker 1: down to the poetry corner, and here just a section
Speaker 1: from in the Isle of Britain. In the Isle of Britain,
Speaker 1: long since famous, grown for breeding the best constant Christendom
Speaker 1: their reigns, And oh long may he reign and thrive
Speaker 1: the easiest king and best bred man alive. Forgiveim no
Speaker 1: ambition moves to get renowned, like the French fool that
Speaker 1: wanders up and down, starving his people, hazarding his crown.
Speaker 1: Peace is his aim. His gentleness is such, and love
Speaker 1: he loves. For he loves fucking much. I can't deny it.
Speaker 1: Nor are his high desires above his strength. His scepter
Speaker 1: and prick are of a length, And she may sway
Speaker 1: the one that plays with the other, and make him
Speaker 1: little wiser than his brother, my brother. How he also
Speaker 1: ended the poem with this little couplet quote all monarchs
Speaker 1: I hate, and the thrones they sit on From the
Speaker 1: Hector of France to the Cully of Britain. Hector, by
Speaker 1: the way, means bully, and he's referring to the son
Speaker 1: king Cully means cuckold, and the brother is James the second,
Speaker 1: and people were making fun of him because James the
Speaker 1: Second had married a commoner and people were like, what
Speaker 1: is wrong with you? But he was also always ogling women,
Speaker 1: like he had no chills, so he would just straight
Speaker 1: up like get a quick in glass and looked down
Speaker 1: their shirts, and people said he had bad taste in women.
Speaker 1: One guy said that his mistresses were given to him
Speaker 1: by priests as pennant. He thought they were so unattractive,
Speaker 1: like damn so that you just talking about James and
Speaker 1: Charles in the same poem. He's like, how daio compare
Speaker 1: mede my idiot? Bravo wow, And Rochester just straight up
Speaker 1: handed him the wrong one. I know. You imagine when
Speaker 1: he starts reading it, he's like, oh shit, I thought
Speaker 1: I gave him the one about you know, the jizzing
Speaker 1: in that girl's hands. I thought he'd love that like
Speaker 1: that one. Yeah, as soon as Charles like, let me
Speaker 1: see this at a poem in the Isle of Britain
Speaker 1: and who no, no, stop actually, so, if I may
Speaker 1: let me finish, I like it so far. You said
Speaker 1: I had a big dick. Wow, whoopsie. Well, Rochester was
Speaker 1: in disgrace for a while after this, but it wasn't
Speaker 1: too long before Charles welcomed him back to court again
Speaker 1: and even appointed him the ranger of Woodbury Park. But
Speaker 1: of course it was not going to be the last
Speaker 1: time this guy got into trouble. We'll hear more about
Speaker 1: that right after this welcome back everyone. So by February
Speaker 1: of sixteen seventy four, John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester,
Speaker 1: was bestias with King Charles the Second again, and he
Speaker 1: managed to hold his position until June of sixteen seventy five,
Speaker 1: when he and some of the Merry Gang were drunk
Speaker 1: as usual and they were out in the palace gardens.
Speaker 1: There was this sun dial in the gardens. It was
Speaker 1: considered one of the finest and rarest, most beautiful sun
Speaker 1: dials in all of England, and it was decorated with
Speaker 1: a painting of King Charles holding his scepter, which John
Speaker 1: had so kindly compared to his dick. It is a
Speaker 1: little fallon, sure, you know the angle and stuff. You know,
Speaker 1: he's like holding it down by his hips, but it's
Speaker 1: pointing out straight out. He's like pointing at it, like, hey, lady, well,
Speaker 1: Rochester was totally wasted. And he took one look at
Speaker 1: the sun dial and he said, quote, what dost thou
Speaker 1: stand there? To fuck time? And then he runs up
Speaker 1: and he starts wailing on this sun dial until it
Speaker 1: fell over. Now he takes one look at what he
Speaker 1: has done. He's like, oh, I've I'm not exactly a
Speaker 1: master of myself right now, and he thinks, oh my god,
Speaker 1: Charles is going to hear that this. I'm definitely going
Speaker 1: to get banished from the quote again, let me save
Speaker 1: you the trouble, and he just ran off on his own. However,
Speaker 1: just like every other time, he was welcome back to court. Eventually,
Speaker 1: Charles loved this guy. He really did. Daniel peppis the
Speaker 1: diary guy. He was like, all serious men just hate
Speaker 1: how much he's willing to forgive this guy. He should
Speaker 1: really just get rid of him. So John's fine. He's
Speaker 1: in with the king again until sixteen seventy six. This
Speaker 1: basic like an annual thing. How He's like, oh, it's
Speaker 1: been a year. I guess i'd better get banished again.
Speaker 1: So he and some friends mary gang guys. Probably they're
Speaker 1: out late at night, drunk as hell, as per usual,
Speaker 1: and they started a fight with the night watch. Now,
Speaker 1: scuffles with the cops were not an uncommon pastime for
Speaker 1: young aristocrat because you know, the cops can't really do
Speaker 1: anything to do, you know him, My daddy is exact daddy,
Speaker 1: Come get me. I'm friends with King child. Yeah, and usually,
Speaker 1: you know, the worst thing that would happen is they
Speaker 1: would kind of spend the night in the drunk tank
Speaker 1: until someone came along and bailed him out. But this
Speaker 1: time one of Rochester's friends, Roger Downs, was killed by
Speaker 1: a pipe thrust from one of the watchman during this fight,
Speaker 1: and instead of staying by his friend and kind of
Speaker 1: like owning up to his drunken behavior that had started
Speaker 1: the fight in the first place, Rochester fled the scene.
Speaker 1: The King considered this to be super cowardly, totally unacceptable,
Speaker 1: no man of honor, etcetera, etcetera, and Rochester was again
Speaker 1: banished from the court damn well. This time he fled
Speaker 1: to Tower Hill, just a poor neighborhood in London near
Speaker 1: the Tower Prison, and he disguised himself as a respectable
Speaker 1: O B G. Y In named Dr Bendo. Just so great,
Speaker 1: I guess doctor Gold. He was supposed to be Italian.
Speaker 1: Oh he was Italian, be over and the way, let's
Speaker 1: see what's going on down there. The doctor Bendo would
Speaker 1: treat women who were dealing with infertility. Now, John Wilmot,
Speaker 1: second Earl of Rochester, acting coach extraordinaire and drunken debauch,
Speaker 1: honorary master's degree from the Party School. None of this
Speaker 1: allowed him to know a single thing about medical stuff.
Speaker 1: He's not a doctor. But one thing he did know
Speaker 1: was how to get a lady pregnant. And the historian
Speaker 1: Gilbert Burnett notes that his treatments were quote not without success,
Speaker 1: implying that some of the women did get pregnant, just
Speaker 1: not by their husband's. Yikes. The treatments were very crazy. Now,
Speaker 1: if these husbands were particularly suspicious or jealous of Dr
Speaker 1: Bendo reading their wives, Rochester simply went into the back
Speaker 1: and changed out his disguise into Mrs Bendo, an ulder
Speaker 1: matronly woman. I'm just an order Italian a woman, Mrs Bendo.
Speaker 1: Nothing to worry about here. Uh. Suddenly all these husbands
Speaker 1: were just totally fine with Mrs Bendo looking up their
Speaker 1: wives skirts. No word on if Mrs Bendo was as
Speaker 1: successful as doctor Bendo and getting these wives pregnant. But
Speaker 1: Shirley Rochester gave it the old Waldham College trial. I'm
Speaker 1: sure what they were alone. He was like, now you
Speaker 1: know he's taking the wig off or whatever he's wearing,
Speaker 1: and he's like, now I could get you pregnant. I'm
Speaker 1: a hot younger man. This is the most modern, this
Speaker 1: is the newest in modern medicine. It's where I fuck
Speaker 1: you trust me. It works most of the time. Then,
Speaker 1: in sixteen seventy nine, one of Rochester's main rivals was
Speaker 1: England's very first poet laureate, whose name was John Dryden,
Speaker 1: and he wrote a poem called an Essay on Satire
Speaker 1: which contained pointed attacks on Rochester as a notorious womanizer.
Speaker 1: So that kind of piste him off. And in December
Speaker 1: of that year Dryden was leaving a popular coffeehouse that
Speaker 1: was frequented by all the wits of the day and
Speaker 1: he was set upon by a bunch of dudes with
Speaker 1: cudgels who beat him up pretty badly. Now, Dryden offered
Speaker 1: a reward of fifty pounds, which is worth something like
Speaker 1: eight thousand pounds today looking about hundred dollars, so nearly
Speaker 1: ten grand reward just for information about why this happened
Speaker 1: and who did it and stuff, But no one ever
Speaker 1: came forward. And some say Rochester is the guy who
Speaker 1: hired the street thugs to beat him up as a
Speaker 1: response to this unflattering verse about him. But I have
Speaker 1: to say I'm not I'm not sure that I, at
Speaker 1: least in what we have learned about him. I don't
Speaker 1: see it myself, do you. It doesn't seem like his
Speaker 1: style right, because he's so busy, you know, roasting other people.
Speaker 1: Surely he I don't know. Maybe he was really bad
Speaker 1: at taking it, but he was really good addition it
Speaker 1: out well. He just seemed like the kind of guy
Speaker 1: who was like, I'm just gonna get go drunk and
Speaker 1: punch you in the nose myself exactly. Yeah, why would
Speaker 1: I hire someone? That's just my opinion. I don't think
Speaker 1: that he did it personally, But some say that he
Speaker 1: was just too sick by that time to be arranging
Speaker 1: a beat down on anyone, because by the time he
Speaker 1: was thirty three years old, the Earl of Rochester was
Speaker 1: dying now. Either he was afflicted with gnarrhea and or
Speaker 1: syphilis uh and or he had the ill effects of alcoholism,
Speaker 1: and or he might have had any disease. Sources don't agree.
Speaker 1: They all sound believable. The guy did not treat himself
Speaker 1: well and his health was failing at a young age.
Speaker 1: His mother, Anne, who was a Puritan but always for
Speaker 1: some reason, encouraged her son's excesses, like if you remember,
Speaker 1: she also helped him plot to kidnap that heiress back
Speaker 1: when he was seventeen. She decided to take matters into
Speaker 1: her She decided to take matters into her own hands,
Speaker 1: and she had Gilbert Burnett come through to John's deathbed.
Speaker 1: Gilbert was a good Protestant minister and and hoped that
Speaker 1: he would save her son's soul in his eleventh hour here.
Speaker 1: But according to Gilbert himself, Rochester did have a last
Speaker 1: minute change of heart. He renounced his atheism and his
Speaker 1: debaucherous ways, and he requested to convert to Anglicism. But
Speaker 1: a lot of scholars are kind of skeptical about this
Speaker 1: because the only account that exists of John converting and
Speaker 1: all this stuff is in Gilbert Burnette's own right, and
Speaker 1: Gilbert was later able to come out and say, I
Speaker 1: converted you know, the Restoration's greatest libertine on his deathbed,
Speaker 1: and that really enhanced his reputation. He later became the
Speaker 1: Bishop of Salisbury. So there's a lot of reason to
Speaker 1: think that Gilbert might have just kind of made this up.
Speaker 1: Who's going to call him on it, right, and the
Speaker 1: guy's dead, Yeah, you can't check my work, So we
Speaker 1: don't really know if Rochester did, you know, convert and
Speaker 1: renounce all his ways at the last minute there, right,
Speaker 1: which you know, it's interesting to think about because he
Speaker 1: definitely lived his life like I'm an atheist, I don't
Speaker 1: believe in, you know, any of this stuff, and he
Speaker 1: was very much like I don't know, nothing was sacred
Speaker 1: to him. I guess it's a good way to put it.
Speaker 1: But you know, they had a very serious belief in hell,
Speaker 1: like they truly are like I can feel the flames
Speaker 1: of hell, you know, licking around my heart. Like they
Speaker 1: really had a visceral image of what that was. So
Speaker 1: it is kind of believable that went right faced with
Speaker 1: death and faced with what you think might be coming next,
Speaker 1: you would be like Okay, fine, just in case, let
Speaker 1: me hedge my bets right right. And I mean even today,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people who you know, have a
Speaker 1: have a you know, nasty personality during the life or something,
Speaker 1: or they're very greedy, or you know, they spurned a
Speaker 1: lot of people, and in their final days they might
Speaker 1: be like, oh my god, what have I done. I've
Speaker 1: I've regret you know, these certain things about my life
Speaker 1: I wish I had done differently. Yeah, that's not uncommon. Well.
Speaker 1: John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, died on July
Speaker 1: and tragically Elizabeth Mallett, Lady Wilmot, died only a year later,
Speaker 1: and shortly after her, their only son, Charles, died as well.
Speaker 1: So the Earl of Rochester title when extinct after only
Speaker 1: two generations. Now. John Wilmot never really collected his poetry
Speaker 1: together for publication. I don't think you ever had plans
Speaker 1: to publish it, so a lot of his writing is lost.
Speaker 1: His most famous poem remains a satire against reason and mankind,
Speaker 1: where he railed again like valuing reason and rationality above
Speaker 1: everything else. Um. But after his death, that was exactly
Speaker 1: what people did value. During the prim Victorian era, respect
Speaker 1: for his writing declined even more. Writer Horace Walpole said
Speaker 1: he was quote a man whom the muses were fond
Speaker 1: to inspire but ashamed to avow. And apparently like a
Speaker 1: lot of his books, if they were available at all,
Speaker 1: they were wrapped in brown paper and they were put
Speaker 1: in the topmost shelf, so you had to like be
Speaker 1: willing to ask for it, and like embarrass yourself is
Speaker 1: like buying a sex toy or something. But critic William
Speaker 1: Haslett said, quote his verses cut and sparkle like diamonds.
Speaker 1: His epigrams were the bitterest, the least labored, and the
Speaker 1: truest that were ever written. His contempt for everything that
Speaker 1: others respect almost amounts to sublimity. Still, all the buttoned
Speaker 1: up Victorians were not interested in erotic poetry, so it
Speaker 1: wasn't until the nineteen twenties that John Wilmot's writing enjoyed
Speaker 1: a little renaissance, thanks to people like Ezra Pound and
Speaker 1: of course the twenties. We we are we know a
Speaker 1: lot about the twenties, and they were very st wheeling
Speaker 1: about sexuality and stuff, so they probably definitely were like,
Speaker 1: oh hell, yes, this is my manual, I'm waking up
Speaker 1: at eleven, I'm getting drunk by seven. Let me send
Speaker 1: for my whole laugh now. For modern readers, Rochester stands
Speaker 1: alone mainly because he didn't bother to couch his poems
Speaker 1: and a bunch of metaphors. Austin Saunders writes in the
Speaker 1: Spectator quote, his poems make perfectly clear what he's talking about,
Speaker 1: and he's always more than happy to call a dildo
Speaker 1: a dildo, or at least senor dilto. Saunders goes on quote.
Speaker 1: In every case, the explicitness of Rochester's poems creates a
Speaker 1: sense that he is talking honestly to us. Their conspicuous
Speaker 1: refusal to use euphemism or to avoid subject matter generally
Speaker 1: recognized as obscene implies an unwillingness to abide by convention
Speaker 1: or to repress instinct. Yeah, he's pointing out like John
Speaker 1: Dunn wrote about oral sex and you know Chaucer, he
Speaker 1: wrote a lot of body, but it took nine the
Speaker 1: sauruses and three different language dictionaries to find out what
Speaker 1: they were talking about exactly. They found a lot of
Speaker 1: ways to quote, you know, beating around the bush. They
Speaker 1: wouldn't even say beat around the bush, probably not, whereas
Speaker 1: John Wilmot was like, let's talk about bush. I'd love
Speaker 1: to talk about that bush I was beating around last night.
Speaker 1: He actually did. In I think it was a play
Speaker 1: that he wrote. He wrote the line my prick no
Speaker 1: more to bald cunt shall resort, Merkins, rub off and
Speaker 1: often spoil the sport he wants. He wants a bush
Speaker 1: like he does. He wants to beat around the bush.
Speaker 1: I want a bush to beat around. Well. In two
Speaker 1: thousand four, they did make a movie about this guy's life,
Speaker 1: starring another controversial fellow, Johnny Depp, and this was called
Speaker 1: The Libertine, based on a by the same name. We
Speaker 1: were able to share some of his poems with you
Speaker 1: here today. Delightful, I think, too funny, but there are
Speaker 1: more that we really want to get into, like an
Speaker 1: Imperfect Enjoyment, which is another just raunchy, hilarious piece about
Speaker 1: premature ejaculation. So come back for our next episode and
Speaker 1: we will spew those poems in your laps. Gross, Just
Speaker 1: make sure you don't bring the kids along, because again,
Speaker 1: this guy, I mean, if you haven't noticed already, this
Speaker 1: guy's not exactly a PG author. Or do if you
Speaker 1: want them to get interested in poetry. That's true because if, right,
Speaker 1: if we'd read this in high school, I'd probably be
Speaker 1: a poet right now. I'm saying like, I'm like, I
Speaker 1: remember reading John Dunne in one of my English classes,
Speaker 1: and we had to have so many conversations about his
Speaker 1: metaphor and all the I don't know, the ways he
Speaker 1: kind of obscured his meaning and talked about, you know,
Speaker 1: something in the Bible, which what he really meant was
Speaker 1: this political thing that was going on at the time,
Speaker 1: and blah blah blah. They had to really like get
Speaker 1: into so much history to understand when he was writing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, why didn't we start with the oral
Speaker 1: sex one. I'm telling you you would have my attention
Speaker 1: the entire semester if we just started there. Maybe that's
Speaker 1: just me, but I feel like people say about language classes,
Speaker 1: like teach me the curse words on the first day
Speaker 1: and then I'm yours for the rest complaints. Yeah, if
Speaker 1: we could do it all over well, anyway, I hope
Speaker 1: you all love this episode about John Wilmoke because it
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