JOHN DRYDEN Edited with an Introduction and JOHN SARGEAUNT London OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS HUMPHREY MILFORD 1929 CONTENTS A POEM UPON THE DEATH OF HIS LATE HIGHNESS, OLIVER, LORD PROTECTOR ASTRÆA REDUX. A POEM ON THE HAPPY RESTORATION AND RETURN OF HIS PAGE I TO MY LORD CHANCELLOR, PRESENTED ON NEW-YEARS-DAY, 1662 ANNUS MIRABILIS: THE YEAR OF WONDERS, 1666. AN HISTORICAL POEM 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 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 |