(Said to be designed for John Florio, surnamed "The Resolute," a philologist. Holofernes, the pedantic schoolmaster, in the same play, is also meant in ridicule of the same lexicographer.)
You may remember, scarce five years are past
Since in your brigantine you sailed to see
The Adriatic wedded to our duke.
T. Otway, Venice Preserved, i. 1 (1682).
Ad'riel, in Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel, the earl of Mulgrave, a royalist.
Sharp-judging Adriel, the Muses' friend;
Himself a muse. In sanhedrim's debate
True to his prince, but not a slave to state;
Whom David's love with honours did adorn,