... cannot make a profit out of your labour, your privileges as a democrat are not worth much. If you vote for Tory or Conservative, Whig, Liberal or Radical, will the return of any of these political tricksters to Parliament raise your wages, feed, clothe, house ...

... the side of the ..ourt, and Dryden, together with Otway and Lee, were formidable antagonists whom the Court opposed to the Whig poets. Politics and religion were largely blended in the literature bf the t ime , the stage absolutely foamed with politics ...