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This man uses his “vigorous warmth” to scatter “his Maker’s image” in the opening lines of a satirical poem set before “priest-craft did begin” and “before polygamy was made a sin.” A poem attributed to this man was expanded into the first English (-5[1])sonnet sequence, a “meditation” by Anne Locke. (15[1])In Renaissance Self-Fashioning, Stephen Greenblatt notes that a cycle by Thomas Wyatt may make a veiled comparison between this man and Henry VIII, since Wyatt could not safely say to Henry, “Thou art the man.” (-5[1])Pietro (*) Aretino’s paraphrase of a set of “penitential” poems attributed to this man influenced Tudor poets. In the King James Version, this man tells Nathan that a thief who steals a ewe lamb (10[1])“shall (10[1])surely (10[1])die,” not realizing he is (10[1])judging himself. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])what king appears in John Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel, (10[2]-5[2])and was (10[1])thought to have sought forgiveness for seducing Bathsheba (10[1])in his (-5[1])Psalms? (10[1]) (10[3])■END■

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