THE SOLILOQUY

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A ROYAL EXILE.

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NHAPPY I! who, once ordain'd to bear
God's juftice fword, and his vicegerent here,
Am now depos'd !-'gainst me my children rise,
My life must be their only facrifice :
Highly they me accufe, but nothing prove;
But this is out of tenderness and love!

They feek to fpill my blood; 'tis that alone
Must for the nation's crying fins atone.
But careful Heaven forewarn'd me in a dream,
And fhew'd me that my dangers were extreme;
The heavenly vision spoke, and bade me flee
Th' ungrateful brood that were not worthy me:
Alarm'd I fled at the appointed time;
And mere neceffity was made my crime!

CON

CONTENTS

OF THE

FIRST VOLUME.

UPON

PON the Death of Lord Haftings

Page 9

Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Crom-

well

Aftræa Redux, a Poem on the Restoration of King
Charles II.

A Panegyric on the Coronation of Charles II.

An Address to Lord Chancellor Hyde

Satire on the Dutch

13

Absalom and Achitophel, Part I.

Part II.

The Medal, a Satire against Sedition

19

30

35

40

To her Royal Highness the Dutchefs, on the memora-

ble Victory gained by the Duke over the Hollanders,

June 3, 1665, and on her Journey into the North 42

Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666

Effay upon Satire. By Mr Dryden and the Earl of

Mulgrave, 1675

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112

122

160

202

Tarquin

Tarquin and Tullia

Suum Cuique

Religio Laici, or a Layman's Faith

The Art of Poetry, by Mr Dryden and Sir William Soame

258

Threnodia Auguftalis, a Funeral Pindarick Poem,
to the Memory of Charles II.

Veni Creator Spiritus, paraphrafed
The Soliloquy of a Royal Exile

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