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help please with; Dryden's Monmouth (7) if i am correct i have a?s???? thank-you - a bit tricky today!

Absalom (Satire on Monmouth)

Dryden wrote of `Absolom and Arhitopel` as an allegory around the time of the Monmouth rebellion

ABSALOM?

To quote from http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-5388578/Shaftesbury-and-Monmouth-as-Lords.html>this page:

"Absalom and Achitophel, on the other hand, is a political polemic that employs the carnivalistic element of the Lord of Misrule to portray Shaftesbury and Monmouth as false, accursed, satanic, and truly dangerous threats to legitimate kingship."