"Upon Leaving His Mistress" by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

Celia could hardly have been delighted to be brushed off with this ironic and derisive poem. The message in between the lines is that Celia has been unfaithful. Rochester was a celebrated libertine and well-known for his caustic wit.

The painting is a part of The Judgment of Paris by Peter Paul Rubens, 1639, to show what sort of female form would be considered ideal in those days. The shape would have been a rarity: most girls would have been too thin. The most frequent physique was the most unpopular, just like today.

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