CONTENTS.

PREFACE

MEMOIR Of Dryden

LIST OF WORDS IN DRYDEN'S POEMS WITH OBSOLETE ACCENTUATION OR PRONUNCIATION.

Pogo

xi

XV

lxxxviii

POEMS,

HISTORICAL, POLITICAL, AND CONTROVERSIAL.

A POEM UPON THE DEATH OF HIS LATE HIGHNESS, OLIVER, LORD PROTECTOR OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND

.

ASTREA REDUX. A POEM ON THE HAPPY RESTORATION AND RETURN OF HIS SACRED MAJESTY CHARLES THE SECOND

TO HIS SACRED MAJESTY, A PANEGYRIC ON HIS CORONATION

3

13

24

TO MY LORD CHANCELLOR.

PRESENTED ON NEW YEAR'S DAY, 1662

28

VERSES TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS, ON THE MEMORABLE Victory GAINED BY THE DUKE AGAINST THE HOLLANDERS, JUNE 3, 1665, AND ON HER JOURNEY AFTERWARDS INTO THE NORTH.

32

MAC FLECKNOE; OR, A SATIRE ON THE TRUE BLUE PROTESTANT POET, T. S.

141

THE SECOND PART OF ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL

RELIGIO LAICI; OR, A LAYMAN'S FAITH

151

183

THRENODIA Augustalis.

A FUNERAL-PINDARIC POEM. TO THE HAPPY MEMORY OF

KING CHARLES II.

203

THE HIND AND THE PANTHER. А РОЕМ. IN THREE PARTS
BRITANNIA REDIVIVA. A POEM ON THE BIRTH of the PRINCE

PREFACE.

is does not contain his Plays or Translations from
omprises all his Prologues and Epilogues to his
ogues and Epilogues, and also his free versions
-t known as his Fables. Three translations of
⚫he volume.

Art of Poetry," which is printed in Scott's
included in this volume: for, though revised
tion is in the main Sir William Soame's work.
excluded from this collection, as being un-
1, Earl of Mulgrave, afterwards successively
of Buckinghamshire. Some smaller pieces
among Dryden's poems have been excluded :
to have been written by Dryden in 1662, but
his Prologue and Epilogue to " Amboyna"
to "The Indian Queen," assigned without
less Sir Robert Howard's, who wrote the
yden; and a second Epilogue to Lee's
and the Epilogue to Southerne's "Disap-
takenly printed by Scott as Dryden's.
his edition to correct and purify the text
se of time has suffered from very many
ive editors. Most, but not all, of the
texts are mentioned in the notes. The
is very considerable. The importance
ged by the smallness
change for
ign. The word

Redux" (108),

as a Dryden

poche,

appears