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Amazia
meant for Charles II, in Pordage's poem of Azaria and Hushai. We are told by the poet, “his father's murtherers he destroyed;” and
then he preposterously adds—
Beloved of all for merciful was he,
Like God, in the superlative degree.
To say that such a selfish, promise-breaking, impious libertine was
“like God, in the superlative degree,” is an outrage against even
poetical licence and court flattery.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Amazia from Infoplease:
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