ABSTRACT
Extracts from (a) Absolon’s IX Worthies: or, A Key to a late Book or Poem, Entituled A.B. & A.C., 1681–2 (text in Dryden’s Works, 1808, ed. Walter Scott, ix. 216); (b) Poetical Reflections on a late Poem entituled, Absalom and Achitophel. By a Person of Honour, 1681 (text, ibid., ix. 272–4); (c) Samuel Pordage, Azaria and Hushai, A Poem, 1682 (text, ibid., ix. 372); (d) Elkanah Settle, Absalcm Senior: or, Achitophel Transpros’d. A Poem, 1682 (text, ibid., ix. 377–8).
