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A thousand cunning Shams and Tricks they us’d, Whereby the simple Vulgar were abus’d; And some o’th’ Edomitish Evidence, Who Mammon worship’d, were brought off with pence.

From Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden by Jones, Harold Whitmore