Now stop your noses, readers, all and some, For here’s a tun of midnight

46. “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 :

1. a connection in the court
2. a hired servant who carries a lighted torch
3. a social tie
4. a rich patron

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