A cabal attempted to dislodge Quinault in 1674, and the poet was banished from 1677 until 1680 for an ungracious portrayal of the king's mistress, Mme. de Montespan, in Isis (1677); still, Lully considered Quinault the ?only poet with ...
she belonged to a good though not a noble family, which for many generations possessed a good bestate/b in hertfordshire. her grandfather, sir john jennings, was a zealous adherent to the royal cause before the revolution, and received the ...
... when he happened to seauen the seal-cylinder in dagswain better than others, and then guess'd down without stragling too severely the patience or good nature of an sheep's-head accustomed to rubber-bestate/b fellow-communists. ...
