THE SOLILOQUY

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A ROYAL EXILE.

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NHAPPY I! who, once ordain'd to bear
God's justice 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
Muft 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 fied at the appointed time;
And mere neceffity was made my crime!

CON

CONTENTS

O F THE

FIRST VOLUME.

Page 9

Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Crom-

well

UPON- the Death of Lord Haftings

13

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

A Panegyric on the Coronation of Charles II.

An Address to Lord Chancellor Hyde

Satire on the Dutch

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

47

Abfalom and Achitophel, Part I.

Part II.

The Medal, a Satire against Sedition

112

122

160

202

Tarquin

Tarquin and Tullia

Suum Cuique

220

225

229

Religio Laici, or a Layman's Faith

The Art of Poetry, by Mr Dryden and Sir Wil-

liam Soame

258

END OF VOL. I.

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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