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Zimri or The Duke of Buckingham as described by John Dryden in ‘Absalom and Achitophel’

30 Wednesday Apr 2014

Posted by Paul Christopher Walton in Flotsam

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Character

A man so various, that he seemed to be
Not one, but all mankind’s epitome:
Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong;
Was everything by starts, and nothing long;
But, in the course of one revolving moon,
Was chymist, fiddler, statesman and buffoon.

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