George Monk, third Duke of Albemarle.
“Brave Abdael oʹer the prophetsʹ school was placed:
Abdael, with all his father’s virtues graced …
Without one Hebrew’s blood, restored the crown.”
Dryden and Tait: Absalom and Achitophel, Part ii.
⁂ Tate’s blunder for Abdiel (q.v.).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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