THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

JOHN DRYDEN.

COLLATED WITH THE BEST EDITIONS:

BY

THOMAS PARK, ES2. F.S. A.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

Printed at the Stanhope Press,

BY CHARLES WHITTINGHAM,
Union Buildings, Leather Lane ;

FOR J. SHARPE, AND SOLD BY W. SUTTABY,
STATIONERS' COURT, LUDGATE STREET.

1806.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

44*296

CONTENTS.

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ENCOMIUMS on Dryden

Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Crom-

well

Astrea Redux. On the happy Restoration

and Return of his Sacred Majesty,

Charles II. 1660..

To His Sacred Majesty. A Panegyric on his

Coronation.

1660.........

Satire on the Dutch. 1662....

Annus Mirabilis: the Year of Wonders, 1666. 35

Essay upon Satire...........

94

Religio Laici; or, a Layman's Faith. 1682.. 103

Threnodia Augustalis: a Funeral Pindaric

King Charles II. 1685...

Britannia Rediviva.......

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Poem, sacred to the happy Memory of

l'age

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