[214] An address from Liverpool assures Charles, that "the councils of your faithful Hushais shall ever prevail against the united force of all-aspiring Absaloms, and the desperate advice of all pestilent Achitophels." Another, from Morpeth, denounces "all mutinous Corahs, rebellious Absaloms, and perfidious Achitophels."
[215] This appears by a note upon Mr Luttrell's copy, "17th November, ex dono amici Jacobi Tonson." He has further labelled it "An excellent Poem against the Duke of Monmouth, Earl of Shaftesbury, and that party, and in vindication of the king and his friends."
[216] "Towser the second, a bull-dog, or a short reply to Absalom and Achitophel;"
In pious times, when poets were well banged
For sawcy satire, and for sham plots hanged,
A learned bard, that long commanded had
The trembling stage in chief, at length ran mad.
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For, since he has given o'er to plague the stage
With the effects of his poetic rage,