This author stated that Reason, “fifty times for one does err,” in his poem “A Satire Against Reason and Mankind.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this licentious, monkey-carrying author who was a courtier for Charles II, although he was briefly exiled for accidentally handing a poem to Charles calling him the “cuckold of Britain.”
ANSWER: John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester [accept either underlined portion] (The other poem is referred to as “A Satire on Charles II.”)
[10m] This 17th Century tract against licensed printing claims that “he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.”
ANSWER: Areopagitica [or Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parlament of England] (by John Milton)
[10e] This author bemoans the faults of “Reason,” God’s “viceroy in” him, in “Batter my heart, three-person’d God,” which is one of his Holy Sonnets alongside “Death be not proud.”
ANSWER: John Donne
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