Settle

Settle, ELKANAH (1648-1723), a dramatist and poetaster of the Restoration period, now remembered only as the Doeg of Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel. He incurred the laureate's satire, which is free from malice, by his absurd vanity in thinking himself the better poet of the two. He sunk into poverty, and died a pensioner at the Charterhouse.