Bathsheba in Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel is Louisa de Queronailles, a young French lady brought into England by the Duchess of Orleans, and who became the mistress of Charles II. The King made her Duchess of Portsmouth.
My father [
Charles II.
] whom with reverence I name ...
Is grown in Bathsheba's embraces old.
Dryden,
Absalom and Achitophel
, ii.
Bathsheba Everdeiie, handsome heiress of an English farmstead, beloved by two honest men and one knave. She marries the knave in haste, and repents it at leisure for years thereafter. Released by his death, she marries Gabriel Oak.—Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd (1874).
Battar (Al), i.e. the trenchant, one of Mahomet's swords.