Text—II Samopl XV. 4 "Absalom said moreover, O, that I were made jadge in the land."
How anybody becomes anybody; how has become the man he has become the man he is, ix always interesting. De. Alexander Whyte blames David for Absalom, for bringing him up bedly and spoiling bim. That is the opinion too of the great John Dryden, who has poem ' Absalom and Abitophel", in which Absalom is the Duke of Mon-month. Describing David's family be "OF all this numerous progeny was none, So beantifal, 60 brave as Absalom.
Wohate'er be did, he did with #o much ease,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.