Note 444 — NOTES ON ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL. PART II.
Reading edition
As appears from numerous ballads upon his meeting Mrs Cellier in Newgate, &c. For example, we have "Dagon's Fall, or the Knight turned out of Commission;" (on Sir William Waller, printed 12th April, 1680, Luttrell's note;) which was answered by a Whig ballad, bearing in front this bold defiance; "An Answer to Dagon's Fall, being a Vindication of Sir William Waller", (printed 15th May, 1680, L.)
He that lately writ the fall of Dagon, Is a rigid Papist, or a Pagan.