Its opening refers to the time "Before polygamy was made a sin," which was useful because queen Michal was "a soil ungrateful to the tiller's care."  
Samuel Pordage and Elkanah Settle wrote three verse replies to this work, whose second part, excepting the sections about Og and Doeg, was likely written by Nahum Tate.  Its opening refers to the time "Before polygamy was made a sin," which was useful because queen Michal was "a soil ungrateful to the tiller's care."  One of the title characters is compared to "A daring pilot in extremity" for his risk-taking during peacetime; he, along with Zimri, leads the other astray until the king's final monologue proclaims to them "Votes shall no more established power control" and regrets having to draw "the sword of justice" against his son. FTP, name this poem about the Popish Plot that allegorizes Monmouth and Shaftesbury as the son of David and his advisor, by John Dryden.
Samuel Pordage and Elkanah Settle wrote three verse replies to this work, whose second part, excepting the sections about Og and Doeg, was likely written by Nahum Tate.  
{Absalom and Achitophel }(2) [DL]