LONDON.

PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME & BROWN.

PATERNOSTER ROW.

10442.11 9 (3)

Harvard ege Library
From the Estate of
PROF. E. W. GURNEY
1 July, 1902

39-84 6-9

CONTENTS

OF

THE THIRD VOLUME.

DRYDEN― Continued-

ALEXANDER'S Feast: or, the Power of Music.

An Ode in honour of St. Cecilia's Day

Palamon and Arcite: or, the Knight's Tale.

In Three Books.

Book I.

II.

III.

The Wife of Bath, her Tale

The Character of a Good Parson

Theodore and Honoria

Religio Laici. An Epistle

To Sir Godfrey Kneller, principal Painter to

His Majesty

The Cock and the Fox: or, the Tale of the

Nun's Priest

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.....

...

Page

The Flower and the Leaf: or, the Lady in

the Arbour

Cymon and Iphigenia

8

27

48

86

108

108

121

136

141

167

187

Hesiod: or, The Rise of Woman

An Allegory on Man

The Book-Worm

PARNELL.

A Fairy Tale, in the ancient English Style

A Night-Piece on Death

The Hermit......................

ROWE.

Colin's Complaint. A Song..

The Contented Shepherd. To Mrs. A-

D. afterwards his Wife

A Song. Ah! Willow.

Sickness

King

Paraphrase on Psalm XXIII.

Page

209

...

264

271

274

282

290

.... 293

To the Same in her

..........

ADDISON.

A Letter from Italy to the Right Hon. Charles

Lord Halifax, in the year 1701

The Campaign. A Poem........

To Sir Godfrey Kneller, on his Picture of the

214

240

JOHN DRYDEN.

Continued.

ALEXANDER'S FEAST:

OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC.

An Ode in Honour of St. Cecilia's Day.

'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won
By Philip's warlike son:
Aloft in awful state

The godlike hero sate

On his imperial throne :

His valiant peers were plac'd around;

Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound:

(So should desert in arms be crown'd)

The lovely Thais, by his side,

Sate, like a blooming eastern bride,

In flower of youth and beauty's pride.
Happy, happy, happy pair!
None but the brave,

None but the brave,

None but the brave deserves the fair.

VOL. III.

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