A few poems by the Earl of Rochester. This is the sort of thing Lovelace would have known well...
Here's another Rochester link online. The critical sources Susanna quoted in her post are excellent; the Turner book would be a good resource for someone pursuing the topic of libertinage. David Vieth's Penguin edition of Rochester's poems is very good, but possibly out of print...
Libertinage continues to exert a certain mental sway over us, including a number of more or less casual references: consider this and this...
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