...service from his retainers. O no ! wait a few months, and his fate will be that of Buckingham : — " wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left." But even though he die or be shelved, the race of traitors will not be extinct ; and it is a sickening...

...service from his retainers. O no ! wait a few months, and his fate will be that of Buckingham : — " wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left." But even though he die or be shelved, the race of traitors will not be extinct; and it is a sickening...

...his retainers. O no ! wait a few months, and his fate will be that of Buckingham : — " wicked hut in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left." But even though he die or be shelved, the race of traitors will not be extinct ; and it is a sickening...

...could ne'r be Chief: For, spight of him, the Weight of Business fell On Absalom and wise Arhitophei. Thus wicked but in Will, of Means bereft, He left not Faction, but of that was left. Yet Dryden's Absalom (1681), The Medall, MarFlerknoe, and the satirical parts of Religio Laid (all...

...Beggared by fools whom he still found too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate. He laughed himself from Court; then sought relief By forming...Achitophel ; Thus wicked but in will, of means bereft, He lelt not faction, but of that was left." 1 111 This second edition appeared with four sets of verses,...

...poet's rage the portrait of "Zimri" may well have been; it was certainly evidence of his deadly skill: Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not Faction, but of that was left.4 4 (Conflating the ruin of Buckingham's finances with his political isolation in the bitter denouement...