Absalom
Absalom. The general idea is that Absalom, fleeing through a wood, was caught by the hair of his head on the bough of a tree, and thus met his death; but the Bible says (2 Sam. xviii.9), "Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth." Apparently his chin was caught by a branch of the oak, and the mule ran off. There is nothing said about his hair getting entangled in the oak. Yet every one knows the doggerel--
Oh Absalom, oh Absalom, my son, my son,
Hadst thou but worn a periwig, thou hadst not been undone!
--David's Lament for his Son Absalom.
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Absalom. Tragedy, 1590, by Peele.
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