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Dryden is a mere renegado from monarchy, poetry, and good sense. A true republican son of monarchical Church. A republican atheist. Dryden was from the beginning an, and I doubt not will continue so to the last.

In the poem call'd Absalom and Achitophel are notoriously traduced, the, the , the and , not only their honourable persons exposed, but the whole  and its  notoriously libell'd. It is scandalum magnatum, yea of  itself.