THE

MISCELLANEOUS WORKS

OF

JOHN DRYDEN, Esq;

CONTAINING ALL HIS

ORIGINAL POEMS, TALES,

AND

TRANSLATIONS.

Now first Collected and Published together

IN FOUR VOLUME S.

WITH

EXPLANATORY NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS.

ALSO AN

ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS.

VOLUME THE FIRST.

LONDON:

Printed for J. and R. TONSON, in the Strand,

MDCCLX.

!

TO

HIS GRACE

The DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.

I

MY LORD,

FI

our

prefume to address to your Grace these Miscellanies of one of greatest English poets, now first collected and illustrated with Notes; perhaps the acknowledged eminence of the author may apologise for the inconfiderableness of the editor. To whom can these poems be more properly inscribed than to such a patron as Dryden himself would have chosen; a nobleman of the first distinction, known to love polite learning, because he understands and tastes it ; and eminent for his candour, no less than his difcernment?

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