"An Extempore upon a Faggot" is an eight-line poem of unknown authorship dating from the mid-17th century. It has been attributed to John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, John Dryden,

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, and Sir John Suckling. In September 2010, Jennifer Batt, lecturer in English at Jesus College, Oxford, published a version of the poem found in the 1708 ''Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany Poems'', part of the Harding Collection at the

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. The original anthology attributes this version to John Milton.

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* * 17th-century poems English poems Works about women Works of uncertain authorship {{poem-stub