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.

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CONTENTS

OF

VOLUME TENTH.

PAGL.

1

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

Preface,

11

Threnodia Augustalis, a Funeral Pindaric Poem, sa-

cred to the happy Memory of King Charles II. 53

Notes, .

79

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

Preface,

109

Notes on Part I.

139

Part II.

159

Notes on Part II.

185

Part III. ..

195

Notes on Part III.

240

Britannia Rediviva, a Poem on the Birth of the

Prince, .

283

Notes,

302

Prologues and Epilogues,

309

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

Notes,

441

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