iel_, unidentified
_Pharisee_, high churchman
_Rehoboam_, unidentified
*_Shimei_, Dryden
_Zabed_, Cromwell
_Zattue_, unidentified

REFERENCES

Biblical parallels and parallels with _Absalom and Achitophel_ are
omitted. The _Dedications_ of the poems can be compared with Dryden's
in _Absalom and Achitophel_.

ABSALOM SENIOR

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3: _Barak_. The only borrowing in the poem from a popular seventeenth
century jest book, _Wits Recreations_ (1640), "Epigrams," no. 46,
"On Sir Fr. Drake": "The sun itself cannot forget/His fellow
traveller."

11: a _Jewish_ Renegade. Cardinal Philip Thomas Howard (B).

13: a Breaden God. Either a reference to transubstantiation (see also
II Kings 2-3 and II Chron. 34) or an allusion to the Meal Tub Plot
(1679).

16: a Cake of _Shew-bread_. In addition to the Biblical allusion,
perhaps a reference to the poisoning of the Holy Roman Emperor
Henry VII by the communion wafer.

17: in Possession. As this legal term is opposed to "reversion"
emendation is unnecessary.

19: to bear. There was a belief that Jeffreys was connected with
the Duchess of Portsmouth (B). The "Golden Prize" was perhaps
protestantism, to be suppressed under a secret provision of the
Treaty of Dover (1670).

19: Court-Drugster. Sir George Wakeman.

25: beautifyed. _OED_ notices this catachrestic form of "beatified"

32: All-be-devill'd Paper. Presumably that accusing Shaftsbury of
high treason.

34: A Cell. Eton.

37: Midnight Bawd. Mrs. Cellier.

POETICAL REFLECTIONS

4: Ignoramus. the jury's verdict at Shaftesbury's trial.

5: the Joyner. Stephen Colledge.

9: motly Sight, read "Spight"?

AZARIA AND HUSHAI

10: Power on _Amazia_. Read "of _Amazia_"?

19: allay'd. Read "ally'd"?

28: to board. Read "hoard"?

38: swifty back. So in all copies seen.

[Erratum:

4: Ignoramus. The jury's verdict at Shaftesbury's trial.
_text reads "the jury's"_]

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Absalom Senior:
or,
ACHITOPHEL
TRANSPROS'D.

A
POEM.

_Si Populus vult decipi_, &c.

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