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

SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.

SECOND EDITION.

VOL. X.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH;
AND HURST, ROBINSON, AND CO. LONDON.

1821.

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PUBLIC LIBRARY

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ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

1934

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Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. Edinburgh.

CONTENTS

OF

VOLUME TENTH.

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

Preface,

Threnodia Augustalis, a Funeral Pindaric Poem, sacred

to the happy Memory of King Charles II.

Notes,

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

Preface,

Notes on Part III.

PAGE.

1

11

53

79

85

240

Britannia Rediviva, a Poem on the Birth of the Prince, 283

Notes,

Prologues and Epilogues,

Notes,

Mac-Flecknoe, a Satire against Thomas Shadwell,