in Dryden’s satire of Absalom and Achitophel, means Louis XIV. of France.
“If Pharaoh’s doubtful succour he [Charles II.] should use,
A foreign aid would more incense the Jews [English nation].”
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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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