476251 Frontispiece to "Maggots" written by Samuel Wesley (1662-1735), c.1685 (engraving) by English School, (17th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: anonymous portrait of the author shown here wearing a laurel wreath with a maggot on his head. Accompanied by the verse "In\'s own defence the Author writes/ Because while this foul Maggot bites/ He nere Can rest in quiet,/ Which makes him make soc sad a face/ Heed beg your worship or your Grace/ Unsight unseen to buy it." was a clergyman of the Church of England, as well as a poet and a writer of controversial prose. He was also the father of John Wesley and Charles Wesley, founders of Methodism. While at Exeter College, Oxford he wrote a book of poems entitled: "Maggots..."); English, out of copyright.