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CONTENTS

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

SONGS, ODES, AND LYRICAL PIECES

The Tears of Amynta for the Death of Damon

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Song (Sylvia the fair, in the bloom of Fifteen)

A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, November 22, 1687

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The Lady's Song

A Song to a Fair Young Lady going out of Town in the Spring

Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Musique. An Ode in honour of St.

Prologue and Epilogue to Sir Martin Mar-all, or the Feigned Innocence

Prologue and Epilogue to The Tempest

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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Prologue. Spoken on the First Day of the Kings House acting after the Fire

Prologue to Arviragus and Philicia, revived.

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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

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Prologue and Epilogue to lureng Zebe.

Epilogue to Calisto, or the Chaste Nymph

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

Prologue and Epilogue. Spoken at the opening of the New House, March 26,

1674

Prologue and Epilogue to the University of Oxford

Epilogue to The Man of Mode, or Sir Fopling Flutter

Prologue to Circe

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Earlier version of Prologue to Circe

Prologue and Epilogue to All for Love, or the World well Lost

Epilogue to Mithridates, King of Pontus

Prologue to The True Widow

Prologue to The Loyal General

Prologue and Epilogue to The Kind Keeper, or Mr. Limberham

Prologue and Epilogue to Edipus.

Prologue and Epilogue to Troilus and Cressida, or Truth found Too Late.

Prologue to Cæsar Borgia, Son of Pope Alexander the Sixth

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

Prologue to the University of Oxford

Prologue to The Unhappy Favourite

Epilogue to The Unhappy Favourite, or the Earl of Essex .

since his Return from Scotland

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Prologue and Epilogue to the King and Queen

Epilogue to Constantine the Great

Prologue and Epilogue to Don Sebastian

Prologue and Epilogue to Amphitryon, or the Two Sosias

Prologue to Mistakes, or the False Report

Prologue and Epilogue to Cleomenes, the Spartan Heroe

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 and Epilogues to The Duke of Guise

Prologue to Disappointment, or the Mother in Fashion

Prologue and Epilogue to Albion and Albanius

Prologue to The Prophetess

Prologue and Epilogue to King Arthur, or the British Worthy

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

From the same

Pastoral Dialogue, from the same

From King Arthur

From the same

Song of Æolus, from the same

Song of Pan and Nereide, from the same

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

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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-