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OXFORD: HORACE HART
PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
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CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION
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A POEM UPON THE DEATH OF HIS LATE HIGHNESS, OLIVER, LORD PROTECTOR
ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND (Heroick Stanza's] .
ASTREA REDUX. A POEM ON THE HAPPY RESTORATION AND RETURN OF HIS
Sacred MAJESTY CHARLES THE SECOND
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TO HIS SACRED MAJESTY. A PANEGYRICK ON HIS CORONATION
To my LORD CHANCELLOR, PRESENTED ON NEW-YEARS-DAY, 1662
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ANNUS MIRABILIS : THE YEAR OF WONDERS, 1666. AN IIIstorical POEM 16
ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL.
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The SECOND PART OF ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL
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THE MEDALL. A SATYRE AGAINST SEDITION
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MAC FLECKNOE; OR, A SATYR ON THE TRUE-BLEW-PROTESTANT POET, T. S. 89
RELIGIO LAICI ; OR A LAYMAN'S Faith
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THRENODIA AUGUSTALIS: A FUNERAL-PINDARIQUE POEM SACRED TO THE
HAPPY MEMORY OF KING CHARLES II.
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THE HIND AND THE PANTHER. A POEM, IN THREE Parts
115 BRITANNIA REDIVIVA: A POEM ON THE BIRTH OF THE PRINCE .
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EPISTLES AND COMPLIMENTARY ADDRESSES
To John Hoddesdon, on his Divine Epigrams
To my Honored Friend Sir Robert Howard on his Excellent Poems 158
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
162
To my Friend, Mr. Northleigh, Author of The Parallel, on his Triumph of the
British Monarchy
164
To my Ingenious Friend, Henry Higden, Esq., on his Translation of the Tenth
Satyr of Juvenal
A Letter to Sir George Etherege
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To Mr. Southern, on his Comedy called The Wives Excuse .
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To my Dear Friend, Mr. Congreve, on his Comedy called The Double-Dealer 166
To Sir Godfrey Kneller, principal Painter to His Majesty
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To Mr. Granville, on his excellent Tragedy, called Heroick Love
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[To Peter Antony Motteux, on his Tragedy, called Beauty in Distress] 171
To my honour'd Kinsman, John Driden of Chesterton
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ELEGIES AND EPITAPHS
Upon the Death of the Lord Hastings
On the Monument of the Marquis of Winchester
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
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SONGS, ODES, AND LYRICAL PIECES
The Tears of Amynta for the Death of Damon
Song (Sylvia the fair, in the bloom of Fifteen)
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, November 22, 1687
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.
Cecilia's Day: 1697
A Song (Go tell Amynta, gentle Swain)
Rondelay
The Fair Stranger
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
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PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES
Prologue and Epilogue to The Wild Gallant
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Prologue to The Rival Ladies
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Prologue and Epilogue to The Indian Emperor
Prologue to Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen
207
Prologue and Epilogue to The Wild Gallant, revived
Prologue and Epilogue to Sir Martin Mar-all, or the Feigned Innocence
Prologue and Epilogue to The Tempest
Prologue to Albumazar
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 : 213
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 216
Prologue to Arviragus and Philicia, revived
Prologue, for the Women, when they Acted at the Old Theatre in Lincoln's
Inn Fields
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Prologue and Epilogue to The Maiden Queen, or Secret Love, when acted by the
Women only
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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 Cruellies 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 during Zebe”.
Epilogue to Calisto, or the Chasle Vymph
Epilogue to The Man of Mode, or Sir Fopling Flutter.
Prologue to Circe
Earlier version of Prologue to Circe
Prologue and Epilogue to All for Love, or ihe World well Lost
Epilogue to Mithridates, King of Pontus
Prologue and
Epilogue to The Kind Keeper, or air. Limberham
Prologue to The True Widow
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 Loyal General
Prologue to The Spanish Fryar, or the Double Discovery
Epilogue to Tamerlane the Great
A Prologue
Prologue and Epilogue to The Princess of cieves
Prologue to the University of Oxford
Prologue to The Unhappy Favourite
Epilogue to The Unhappy Favourite, or the Earl of Essex.
Prologue to his Royal Highness upon his first appearance at the Duke's Theatre
since his Return from Scotland
Prologue to the Duchess on her Return from Scotland
Prologue and Epilogue to The Loyal Brother, or the Persian Prince
Prologue and Epilogue to the King and Queen
Prologue and Epilogues to The Duke of Guise
Epilogue to Constantine the Great
Prologue to Disappointment, or the Mother in Fashion
Prologue and Epilogue to Albion and Albanius
Prologue and Epilogue to Don Sebastian
Prologue to The Prophetess
Prologue and Epilogue to Amphitryon, or the Tao Sosias
Prologue to Mistakes, or the False Report
Prologue and Epilogue to King Arthur, or the British Worthy
Prologue and Epilogue to Cleomenes, the Sparlan Heroe
Epilogue to Henry 11, King of England, wilh the Death of Rosamond
Prologue and Epilogue to Love Triumphant, or Nature will Prevail
Epilogue to The Husband his own Cuckold
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
The Character of a Good Parson
Sigismonda and Guiscardo
Theodore and Honoria
Cymon and Iphigenia
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TRANSLATIONS OF LATIN HYMNS AND MINOR MISCELLANIES
Veni, Creator Spiritus
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Te Deum
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Hymn for the Nativity of St. John Baptist
Lines in a Letter to his Lady Cousin, Honor Driden
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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
SONGS FROM THE PLAYS
Song of Aerial Spirits, from The Indian Queen
Hymn to the Sun, from the same
From The Indian Emperor
From the same
From The Maiden Queen
From Sir Martin Marr-all
From the same (after Voiture)
From An Evening's Love
From Tyrannick Love
From The Conquest of Granada
Song of the Zambra Dance, from The Conquest oj Grarada
From the same, Part II
From Marriage-à-la-Mode
From The Assignation
Epithalamium from Amboyna
Song of the Sea Fight, from the same
From The Kind Keeper. Song from the Italian
Song to Apollo, from Edipus
From Troilus and Cressida
From The Spanish Fryar
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