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INTRODUCTION
A POEM UPON the Death of his late Highness, Oliver, Lord ProtectOR OF ENGLAND, Scotland, and IRELAND [Heroick Stanza's] .
ASTREA REDUX. A POEM ON THE HAPPY RESTORATion and Return of his
SACRED MAJESTY CHARLES THE SECOND
TO HIS SACRED MAJESTY. A PANEGYRICK ON HIS CORONATION
TO MY LORD CHANCELLOR, PRESENTED ON NEW-YEARS-DAY, 1662
ANNUS MIRABILIS: THE YEAR of Wonders, 1666. AN HISTORICAL POEM
ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL
THE SECOND PART OF ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL
THE MEDALL. A SATYRE AGAinst Sedition
MAC FLECKNOE; or, A Satyr on the True-Blew-Protestant Poet, T. S.
RELIGIO LAICI; OR A LAYMAN'S Faith
THRENODIA AUGUSTALIS: A FUNERAL-PINDARIQUE POEM SACRED TO THE
HAPPY MEMORY OF KING CHARLES II .
THE HIND AND THE PANTHER. A Poem, in Three PARTS
BRITANNIA REDIVIVA: A POEM ON THE BIRTH OF THE Prince
EPISTLES AND COMPLIMENTARY ADDRESSES
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To John Hoddesdon, on his Divine Epigrams
To my Honored Friend Sir Robert Howard on his Excellent Poems.
To my Honour'd Friend Dr. Charleton, on his learned and useful Works
To the Lady Castlemaine, upon Her incouraging his first Play
To Mr. Lee, on his Alexander
To the Earl of Roscomon, on his Excellent Essay on Translated Verse
To my Friend, Mr. Northleigh, Author of The Parallel, on his Triumph of the
British Monarchy
To my Ingenious Friend, Henry Higden, Esq., on his Translation of the Tenth
Satyr of Juvenal
A Letter to Sir George Etherege
To Mr. Southern, on his Comedy called The Wives Excuse.
To my Dear Friend, Mr. Congreve, on his Comedy called The Double-Dealer
To Sir Godfrey Kneller, principal Painter to His Majesty
To Mr. Granville, on his excellent Tragedy, called Heroick Love.
[To Peter Antony Motteux, on his Tragedy, called Beauty in Distress]
To my honour'd Kinsman, John Driden, of Chesterton
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Epitaph on Sir Palmes Fairborne's Tomb, in Westminster Abbey
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
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To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady, Mrs. Anne Killigrew,
excellent in the two Sister-arts of Poesie and Painting. An Ode
Upon the Death of the Viscount of Dundee
Epitaph on the Lady Whitmore
Eleonora: A Panegyrical Poem: dedicated to the Memory of the late Countess
of Abingdon
On the Death of Mr. Purcell.
The Monument of a Fair Maiden Lady, who dy'd at Bath, and is there interr'd
On the Death of Amyntas. A Pastoral Elegy
On the Death of a very Young Gentleman
Upon Young Mr. Rogers, of Gloucestershire
On Mrs. Margaret Paston, of Barningham, in Norfolk.
Epitaph on a Nephew in Catworth Church, Huntingdonshire
The Tears of Amynta for the Death of Damon
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SONGS, ODES, AND LYRICAL PIECES
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A Song to a Fair Young Lady going out of Town in the Spring
J Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Musique. An Ode in honour of St.
Cecilia's Day: 1697
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A Song (Fair, sweet and young, receive a prize)
A Song (High State and Honours to others impart)
The Secular Masque
Song of a Scholar and his Mistress
Prologue and Epilogue to Sir Martin Mar-all, or the Feigned Innocence
Prologue and Epilogue to The Tempest
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210
Prologue and Epilogue to An Evening's Love, or the Mock Astrologer.
Prologue and Epilogue to Tyrannick Love, or the Royal Martyr
Prologue and Epilogue to The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards
Prologue and Epilogue to the Second Part of The Conquest of Granada by the
Spaniards
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215
Prologue. Spoken on the First Day of the Kings House acting after the Fire 216
Prologue to Arviragus and Philicia, revived.
216
Prologue, for the Women, when they Acted at the Old Theatre in Lincoln's
Inn Fields
Prologue and Epilogue to The Malden Queen, or Secret Love, When acted by the
Women only
Prologue and Epilogue to Marriage-à-la-Mode
Prologue and Epilogue to The Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery
Prologue and Epilogue to Amboyna, or the Cruelties of the Dutch to the English
Merchants.
Prologue and Epilogue to the University of Oxford
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Prologue and Epilogue to lureng-Zebe.
Epilogue to Calisto, or the Chaste Nymph
Prologue to Circe
Prologue and Epilogue. Spoken at the opening of the New House, March 26,
1674
Epilogue to The Man of Mode, or Sir Fopling Flutter.
Earlier version of Prologue to Circe
Prologue and Epilogue to All for Love, or the World well Lost
Prologue and Epilogue to The Kind Keeper, or Mr. Limberham
Prologue to The True Widow
Prologue and Epilogue to Edipus.
Prologue to Cæsar Borgia, Son of Pope Alexander the Sixth
Prologue to The Loyal General
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Prologue and Epilogue to Troilus and Cressida, or Truth found Too Late.
The Prologue at Oxford, 1680
Prologue to The Spanish Fryar, or the Double Discovery
Epilogue to Tamerlane the Great
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Prologue to the University of Oxford
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Prologue to his Royal Highness upon his first appearance at the Duke's Theatre
Prologue to the Duchess on her Return from Scotland
Prologue and Epilogue to The Loyal Brother, or the Persian Prince
Prologue to Disappointment, or the Mother in Fashion
Prologue and Epilogue to Albion and Albanius
Prologue to The Prophetess
Prologue and Epilogue to Amphitryon, or the Two Sosias
Prologue to Mistakes, or the False Report
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Prologue and Epilogue to King Arthur, or the British Worthy
Prologue and Epilogue to Cleomenes, the Spartan Heroe
Epilogue to Henry 11, King of England, with the Death of Rosamond
Prologue and Epilogue to Love Triumphant, or Nature will Prevail
Epilogue to The Husband his own Cuckold
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Prologue and Epilogue on the Occasion of a Representation for Dryden's Benefit,
March 25, 1700
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FABLES ANCIENT AND MODERN
To his Grace the Duke of Ormond
Preface
To her Grace the Dutchess of Ormond
Palamon and Arcite or the Knight's Tale. From Chaucer
The Cock and the Fox, or the Tale of the Nun's Priest
The Flower and the Leaf; or, The Lady in the Arbour The Wife of Bath her Tale
TRANSLATIONS OF LATIN HYMNS AND MINOR MISCELLANIES
Veni, Creator Spiritus
Te Deum
Hymn for the Nativity of St. John Baptist
Lines in a Letter to his Lady Cousin, Honor Driden
Lines printed under the engraved portrait of Milton, in Tonson's folio edition
of the Paradise Lost, 1688
Impromptu Lines addressed to his Cousin, Mrs. Creed
Fragment of a Character of Jacob Tonson
From the same
From The Conquest of Granada
Song of the Zambra Dance, from The Conquest of Granada
From the same, Part II
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Song betwixt a Shepherd and a Shepherdess, from The Duke of Guise
From Amphitryon
Pastoral Dialogue, from the same
From King Arthur
Song of Æolus, from the same
Song of Pan and Nereide, from the same
Preface to Sylvae, or the Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies, 1685
TRANSLATIONS FROM THEOCRITUS:
Amaryllis; or, the Third Idyllium of Theocritus, paraphras'd
The Epithalamium of Helen and Menelaus, from the Eighteenth Idyllium
of Theocritus
The Despairing Lover, from the Twenty-third Idyllium of Theocritus.
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TRANSLATIONS FROM LUCRETIUS:
The Beginning of the First Book of Lucretius
The Beginning of the Second Book of Lucretius
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The Latter Part of the Third Book of Lucretius; against the Fear of Death 398
From Book the Fifth of Lucretius
402
TRANSLATIONS FROM HORACE :
The Third Ode of the First Book of Horace; inscribed to the Earl of
Roscommon, on his intended Voyage to Ireland
The Twenty-ninth Ode of the Third Book of Horace; paraphrased in
Pindarick Verse, and inscribed to the Right Hon. Laurence, Earl of
Rochester
The Last Parting of Hector and Andromache. From the Sixth Book of
Homer's Iliads
TRANSLATIONS FROM OVID:
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The Dedication to Examen Poeticum, 1693
The First Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses
Meleager and Atalanta, out of the Eighth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses 443
Baucis and Philemon, out of the Eighth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. 450
The Fable of Iphis and Ianthe, from the Ninth Book of Ovid's Metamor-