THE

WORKS

OF

JOHN DRYDEN.

M

THE

WORKS

OF

JOHN DRYDEN

ILLUSTRATED

WITH NOTES,

HISTORICAL, CRITICAL, AND EXPLANATORY,

AND

A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

BY

SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.

revised anD CORRECTED

BY

GEORGE SAINTSBURY.

VOL. V.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR WILLIAM PATERSON, PRINCES STREET,
BY T. AND A. CONSTABLE, PRINTERS TO HER MAJESTY.

1883.

CONTENTS

OF

VOLUME FIFTH.

Amboyna; or, The Cruelties of the Dutch to the English

Merchants, a Tragedy,

Epistle Dedicatory to Lord Clifford of Chud-

leigh,

The State of Innocence and Fall of Man, an Opera,

Epistle Dedicatory to her Royal Highness

Preface. The Author's Apology for Heroic

Poetry and Poetic Licence,

Aureng-Zebe, a Tragedy,

Epistle Dedicatory to the Earl of Mulgrave,.

All for Love; or, The World well Lost, a Tragedy,

Epistle Dedicatory to the Earl of Danby,

Preface,

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