THE

CRITICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS

PROSE WORKS

OF

JOHN DRYDEN,

NOW FIRST COLLECTED:

WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS;

AN ACCOUNT OF THE

LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THE AUTHOR,

GROUNDED ON

ORIGINAL AND AUTHENTICK DOCUMENTS;

AND

A COLLECTION OF HIS LETTERS,

THE GREATER PART OF WHICH HAS NEVER BEFORE
BEEN PUBlished.

BY EDMOND MALONE, Esq.

VOLUME THE SECOND.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY H. BALDWIN AND SON, NEW BRIDGE-STREET,

FOR T. CADELL, JUN. AND W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND.

M.DCCC.

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CONTENTS.

VOL. II.

Dedication of ALL FOR LOVE to Thomas Os-

borne, Earl of Danby

Preface to ALL FOR LOVE

...

Dedication of LIMBERHAM to John, Lord

Vaughan

Preface to OEDIPUS

Dedication of TROILUS AND CRESSIDA to

.....

Robert Spencer, Earl of Sunderland.

Dedication of THE SPANISH FRIAR to John
Holles, Lord Houghton..

Dedication of The Duke of GUISE to Lau

...

rence Hyde, Earl of Rochester

Vindication of THE DUKE OF GUISE...

Preface to ALBION AND ALBANIUS

Dedication of DON SEBASTIAN to Philp Sydney,

...

171

183

197

203

Leveson Gower, Baronet ..

Dedication of KING ARTHUR to George Saville,

Marquis of Halifax

Dedication of CLEOMENES to Laurence Hyde,

Earl of Rochester

Preface to CLEOmenes

Dedication of LOVE TRIUMPHANT to James

Cecil, Earl of Salisbury.

217

225

235

Preface to THE HUSBAND HIS OWN CUCKOLD 243

Dedication of ANNUS MIRABILIS to the Lord

Mayor and Aldermen of London..

Account of ANNUS MIRABILIS, addressed to

Sir Robert Howard ....

Preface to the Remarks on THE EMPRESS OF

MOROCCO

Extract from the Remarks

Preface to ABSALOM AND ACHITOphel

Dedication of THE MEDAL to the Whigs

Preface to RELIGIO LAICI

Page

247

253

271

280

331

351

Dedication of PLUTARCH'S LIVES to James

Butler, the first Duke of Ormond.

The Life of PLUTARCH.

Dedication of the HISTORY OF THE LEAGUE

to King Charles II.....

427

Postscript to THE HISTORY OF THE LEAGUE 437

Defence of Anne Hyde, Duchess of York .... 475

Preface to THE HIND AND THE PANTHER.. 533

Dedication of the Life of St. Francis Xavier 543

VOL. III.

Preface to the Translation of Ovid's Epistles

Preface to the SECOND MISCELLANY

......

3

25

Preface to Walsh's Dialogue concerning Women 53

Dedication of ELEONORA to James Bertie,

Earl of Abingdon

Character of St. Evremont

57

65

Page

Discourse on the ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF

SATIRE, addressed to Charles Sackville,

Earl of Dorset

Character of POLYBIUS

71

269

Dedication of the THIRD MISCELLANY to
Francis Radcliffe, Lord Radcliffe.

.......

A PARALLEL OF POETRY AND PAINTING... 291

The Life of LUCIAN.

...

Dedication of Virgil's PASTORALS to Hugh,

Lord Clifford.

Dedication of the GEORGICKS of Virgil to

Philip Stanhope, the second Earl of Chester-

field..

.....

Discourse on EPICK POETRY; addressed to

John Sheffield, Marquis of Normanby

Postscript to the Translation of Virgil

Dedication of FABLES, ANCIENT AND MO-

DERN, to James Butler, the second Duke of

Ormond

Preface to the FABLES

353

391.

405

423

557

575

587