Although theother romantic poets were deeply indebted to Revelation (Abrams, Natural Supernaturalism [1971], 41-46) they treated the Whore of Babylon in relatively conventional ways. In the dramatic fragment Charles the First, Shelley has the citizens of London comment on Archbishop Laud, whose London will soon be his Rome (1.58), and on Henrietta Maria, the Babylonian Woman and Cananitish Jezebel (1.62, 69). Similar slurs are cast on the Roman Catholic Lady https://books.google/books?id=zD6xVr1CizIC&pg=PA828&lpg=PA828&dq=jezebel+whore+of+babylon&source=bl&ots=05BKmGTE0n&sig=spu242TyNdqfTbcR0KyMZBR5nwY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ok2xVN68BseryASv8oGoDQ&ved=0CBQQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=jezebel%20whore%20of%20babylon&f=false
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