“Now stop your noses, readers, all and some, For here’s a tun of midnight – work to come, Og, from a treason-tavern rolling home. Round as a globe and liquor’d e’vry chink, Goodly and great he rails behind his link”. In the above passage from Absalom and Achitophel, link means :
A. a connection in the court
B. a hired servant who carries a lighted torch
C. a social tie
D. a rich patron
Answer:B
“Now stop your noses, readers, all and some, For here’s a tun of midnight – work to come, Og, from a treason-tavern rolling home. Round as a globe and liquor’d e’vry chink, Goodly and great he rails behind his link”. In the above passage from Absalom and Achitophel, link means :
A. a connection in the court B. a hired servant who carries a lighted torch C. a social tie D. a rich patron