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ALLUSIONS
NAMES
The persons and places referred to in the allegories are identified in the
following lists of names. M indicates the ascription in the Manchester
copy; B, that in the Leeds University copy. Within the list for each
poem, names similarly used in _Absalom and Achitophel_ are omitted;

those used with a different meaning are marked with an asterisk.
ABSALOM SENIOR
*_Absalom_, Duke of York
*_Achitophel_, Halifax
*_Adriel_,
Earl of Huntington
_Amasai_, Earl of Macclesfield (M, B)

_Amnon_, Godfrey
*_Amiel_, Buckingham (B)
_Amram_, Sir
William Jones
_Arabia_, Portugal
_Ashur_, Fourth Lord Herbert of
Cherbury (M)
_Babylon_, Rome
_Barak_, Drake
*_Barzillai_,
Shaftesbury (B)
*_Caleb_, Laurence Hyde, son of Clarendon (B)

_Camries_, Third Lord Howard of Escrick (M)
*_Corah_, Sir
Edward Seymour (B)
_Deborah_, Queen Elizabeth
_Endor_,
Oxford (B)
_Geshur_, Ireland
_Hanaan_, Lord Nottingham

_Hazor_, Spain
*_Helon_, First Duke of Bedford
*_Hothriel_,
Slingsby Bethell
*_Hushai_, Earl of Argyll
_Ithream_, Monmouth

_Jabin_, Philip II
*_Jonas_, ?Sir William Gregory (M glosses as
Seymour; _see Corah_) *_Jotham_, Earl of Essex
_Laura_, Anne
Reeve
_Levitick chiefs_, English bishops (B)
_Micah_, Sir William
Williams, Speaker of the Commons
*_Nadab_, Lauderdale

*_Shimei_, Jeffreys (B)
_Sidon_, Denmark
_Sisera_, Medina
Sidonia
_Zeleck_, unidentified
POETICAL REFLECTIONS
*_Amiel_, ?Finch, Lord Chancellor
*_Bathsheba_, ?Queen Catherine

_Nimrod_, Cromwell
_Tory Roger_, L'Estrange
AZARIA AND HUSHAI
_Abidon_, unidentified
_Amalack_, ?Henry Hyde, son of Clarendon

_Amazia_, Charles II
_Aminadab, Ashur_, unidentified; _see_
Ashur _above_.

_Athalia_, Mary Queen of Scots
_Azaria_,
Monmouth
_Azyad_, Sir Edmundbury Godfrey
_Bibbai_,
L'Estrange
_Canaanites, Chemarim_, Papists
_Doeg_, Danby

_Edomites_, Irish
_Elam_, Lawrence Hyde, Earl of Rochester


_Eliab_, Lord Russell
_Eliakim_, Duke of York

_Elishama_, ?Macclesfield
_Elizur, Enan_, unidentified
_Essens_,
nonconformists
_Gamaliel_, unidentified
_Gedaliah_, Edward
Coleman
_Gibbar_, ?Lord Clifford
_Harim_, ?Lord Wharton

_Helon_, Bedford
*_Hushai_, Shaftesbury
_Jehosaphat_, Henry
VII
_Jeptha_, see Settle, p. 21
_Jerusha_, Anne, Countess of
Buccleuch
_Joash_, Charles I
_Jocoliah_, Lucy Walters

*_Jotham_, ?Halifax
_Libni_, Oates
_Muppim_, ?Lauderdale

_Nashai_, Essex
_Pagiel_, 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
Page
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"_]

Absalom Senior:
or,
ACHITOPHEL
TRANSPROS'D.

A
POEM.
_Si Populus vult decipi_, &c.
[Illustration: Publisher's Device:
IL VOSTRO MALIGNARE NON
GIOVA NVLLA]
LONDON:
Printed for _S. E._ and Sold by _Langley Curtis_,
at the Sign of Sir _Edmondbury Godfrey_,
near _Fleetbridge_. 1682.
To the TORIES.
_Gentlemen_, for so you all write your selves; and indeed you are your
own Heralds, and Blazon all your Coats with _Honour_ and _Loyalty_
for your _Supporters_; nay, and you are so unconscionable too in that
point, that you will allow neither of them in any other _Scutcheons_
but your own. But who has 'em, or has 'em not, is not my present
business; onely as you profess your selves Gentlemen, to conjure you
to give an Adversary fair play; and that if any person whatsoever shall
pretend to be aggrieved by this POEM, or any part of it, that he would
bear it patiently; since the Licentiousness of the first _Absolom_ and
_Achitophel_ has been the sole occasion of the Liberty