Note 447 — NOTES ON ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL. PART II.
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In 1685. It is remarkable, that Goodman the actor, when a student at Cambridge, had been expelled for being concerned in cutting and defacing that same picture, which the university, by a solemn act, appointed to be burned in public. Stepney has a poem on this solemnity, with the apt motto, which applies to mobs, whether composed of the learned or ignorant:
———Sed quid Turba Remi? Sequitur fortunam ut semper, et odit Damnatos.