“In friendship false, implacable in hate,
Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.”

— John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel

Pt. I, lines 173–174.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

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English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century 1631–1700

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