The king's faults are glossed over by the writer and his illegitimate son is not very well introduced because it seems he's characterised by lust. In this sense, readers can realise that characters are described as different type of universal human characteristics along the poem.
He agrees that plots are "necessary things- on the occasion of recalling when Roman Catholic went through problems from the time of Elizabeth II and then says "when the chosen people grew more strong the rightful cause at length became the wrong-.This example identifies him with the Anglicans and Tories but it also reveals that Dryden is against radical protestants-Puritans- who were most of them supporters of the Parliament.
Another character "Shaftesbury- is told to behave in bad manners: -In friendship false,"resolved to ruin or to rule the state-. From this, the reader can deduce that Dryden can't tolerate this position because he's a defender of the absolute power of the king and remains loyal to the Court. Dryden doesn't agree with Monmouth (he calls him-"warlike--) who wanted to establish a "democracy- but the poet can't admit that because he feels monarchist and Monmouth was a candidate for succession to his father king on the part of the Whigs who can be defined as progressive (in favour of political changes).
Ambition for the succession is described. The author introduces the voice of Shaftesbury in a direct style to provide his personal opinion about the king's government; "The faith's defender, and mankind's delight, good, gracious, just, observant of the laws -his crime is God's beloved attribute .Shaftesbury is stating in this way that it's dangerous to subject people to Catholicism. .
On the other hand, there's mention in the poem of the "fake- plot carried out by Catholics but invented by the Whigs in order to murder the king. When it says "Can people give away both for themselves and sons, their native sway? Dryden refers to a plot in which the duke of York and Charle's wife were involved to poison him.
