[Footnote 369: Note VIII.] [Footnote 370: What follows is entirely written by Dryden, down to the conclusion of the character of Og.] [Footnote 371: Robert Ferguson. See note IX.] [Footnote 372: Scotland.] [Footnote 373: Forbes. See note X.] [Footnote 374: Note XI.] [Footnote 375: Julian the Apostate.] [Footnote 376: Burnet. See note XII.] [Footnote 377: Pordage. See note XIII.] [Footnote 378: Hall. See note XIV.] [Footnote 379: Settle. See note XV.] [Footnote 380: In Settle's poem, he calls the Duke of York Absalom. For his apology, see note XV.] [Footnote 381: There is a ballad on this loathsome story among the Rump Songs.] [Footnote 382: Settle gave his poem, in answer to Dryden, the title of "Absalom Senior, or Absalom and Achitophel _transprosed_." And the first verse runs thus: In gloomy times, when priestcraft bore the sway. And made heaven's gate a lock to their own key. ] [Footnote 383: Shadwell, See note XVI.] [Footnote 384: Note XVII.] [Footnote 385: Sir William Waller. See Note XVIII.] [Footnote 386: Member of Parliament.] [Footnote 387: Note XIX.] [Footnote 388: Note XX.] [Footnote 389: Dutch wars.] [Footnote 390: Note XXI.] [Footnote 391: Note XXII.] [Footnote 392: Lord Dartmouth. See Note XXIII.] [Footnote 393: General Sackville. See Note XXIV.] [Footnote 394: Note XXV.] [Footnote 395: Duke of Beaufort, President of Wales.--See Note XXVI.] [Footnote 396: Lord Herbert.] [Footnote 397: The second Duke of Albemarle, son of General Monk.--See Note XXVII.] [Footnote 398: Earl of Arlington.--Note XXVIII.] [Footnote 399: Duke of Grafton. Note XXIX.] [Footnote 400: Earl of Feversham.--Note XXX.] [Footnote 401: Sir Heneage Finch, Earl of Winchelsea and Lord Chancellor. Note XXXI.] [Footnote 402: First edit. _Ziba_. Sir Roger L'Estrange.--Note XXXII.] [Footnote 403: Dryden.] [Footnote 404: The thunder was anciently supposed to spare the laurel.] [Footnote 405: The Duchess of York.] [Footnote 406: Note XXXIII.] [Footnote 407: The grammar requires to read, _he's_.] [Footnote 408: Sir John Moore, Lord Mayor of London.--Note XXXIV.] [Footnote 409: First edit. _Syrges_.] [Footnote 410: Mr Pilkington and Mr Shute, Sheriffs.--Note XXXV.] NOTES ON ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL. PART II. Note I. _That arts of foreign sway he did affect, And guilty Jebusites from law protect, Whose very chiefs, convict, were never freed; Nay, we have seen their sacrificers bleed._--P. 320.