Samuel Butler (poet)
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Samuel Butler (4 December, 1612 – 18 June, 1680) was born in Strensham, Worcestershire and baptised 14 February, 1613. He is remembered now chiefly for a long satirical burlesque poem on Puritanism entitled Hudibras.
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