Filmer, Sir Robert, advocated the doctrine of absolute regal power in
his Patriarcha, 1680,
Flecknoe and Settle, synonyms for vileness in poetry (cp. Moevius and
Bairus among the Romans). Flecknoe was an Irish priest who printed a
host of worthless matter. Settle was a playwright, who degenerated into
a “city-poet and a puppet-show” keeper; both were satirized by Dryden
Fleury, French cardinal and statesman, tutor and adviser of Louis XV.
(1653-1743)