THE

WORKS

OF

JOHN DRYDEN,

NOW FIRST COLLECTED

IN EIGHTEEN VOLUMES.

ILLUSTRATED

WITH NOTES,

HISTORICAL, CRITICAL, AND EXPLANATORY,

AND

"

A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

BY

WALTER SCOTT, Esq.

VOL. X.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR WILLIAM MILLER, ALBEMARLE STREET,

BY JAMES BALLANTYNE AND CO. EDINBURGH.

1808.

Meg

ILDEN LIBRARY

1895

CONTENTS

VOLUME TENTH.

...

Religio Laici, or a Layman's Faith, an Epistle, . .

Preface,

Threnodia Augustalis, a Funeral Pindaric Poem, sa-

cred to the happy Memory of King Charles II.

Notes,.

The Hind and the Panther, a Poem, in Three Parts, 85

53

79

....

Preface,

109

Notes on Part I.

139

Part II.

Notes on Part II.

Part III.

Notes on Part III.

Britannia Rediviva, a Poem on the Birth of the

Prince,.

OF

PAGE.

1

11

...

159

185

283

302

Notes,...

Prologues and Epilogues,

309

· Mack-Flecknoe, a Satire against Thomas Shadwell, 425

Notes,

441

195

240