THE

MISCELLANEOUS WORKS

OF

JOHN DRYDEN, Efq;

CONTAINING ALL HI'S

ORIGINAL POEMS, TALE S,

AND

TRANSLATION S.

Now firft Collected and Published together

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

WITH

EXPLANATORY NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS.

ALSO A N

ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS.

VOLUME THE FIRST.

LONDON:

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

MDCCLX.

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 42898

ASTOR, LENOX AND

TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

то

HIS GRACE

The DUKE of NEWCASTLE.

MY LORD,

F I prefume to address to your Grace thefe Mifcellanies of one of our greatest English poets, now firft collected and illuftrated 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 fuch 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?