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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 John Milton 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 Bodleian Library.