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The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 09

Note 321 — NOTES ON ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL.

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In "Absalom's nine Worthies" he is thus commemorated:

The next Priapus Balaam, of whom 'tis said, His brains did lie more in his tail than's head, Sprouted of royal stem, in ancient days; 'Tis an ill bird that his own nest bewrays.

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