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Samuel PordageSamuel Pordage (1633 - 1691?), poet, son of a clergyman in Berks, educated at Merchant Taylor's School, studied law at Lincoln's Inn, and made various translations, wrote some poems, two tragedies, Herod and Mariamne (1673), and The Siege of Babylon (1678), and a romance, Eliana. He is best known by his Azaria and Hushai (1682), in reply to Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel, distinguished from the other replies by its moderation and freedom from scurrility. Pordage, Samuel Pordage, Samuel Pordage, Samuel
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