England, Interrupted: The Interregnum and Restoration, 1650-1685
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
The Disabled Debauchee
The disabled debauchee is written in the voice of an aging rake. The poem also uses the term link boy, which was a term for a young man or teanager who could escort people around the streets of the city at night. So you can imagine the sort of a scandal and and in shock that a poem like this could produce just a few years after the end of the puritan regime.
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