Note 325 — NOTES ON ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL.
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One can hardly help exclaiming, with the punning author of a ballad called "Oates well thresh't,"
A curse on every thing that's hight Oates; Both young and old, both black and white Oates Both long and short, both light and Tite Oates!
He is thus stigmatized as one of Absalom's nine worthies:
Last Corah, unexhausted mine of plots, Incredible to all but knaves and sots; He surely may for a new Sampson pass, That kills so sure with jaw-bone of an ass.