THE

WORKS

OF

JOHN DRYDEN.

THE

WORKS

OF

JOHN DRYDEN,

NOW FIRST COLLECTED

IN EIGHTEEN VOLUMES.

ILLUSTRATED

WITH NOTES,

HISTORICAL, CRITICAL, AND EXPLANATORY,

AND

A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

BY

WALTER SCOTT, Esq.

VOL. X.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR WILLIAM Miller, albemarle street,

BY JAMES BALLANTYNE AND CO. EDINBURGH.

1808.

CONTENTS

or

VOLUME TENTH.

Religio Laici, or a Layman's Faith, an Epistle, ..

Preface,

...

Threnodia Augustalis, a Funeral Pindaric Poem, sa-

cred to the happy Memory of King Charles II.

Notes,.

...

...

PAGE.

1

11

53

79

The Hind and the Panther, a Poem, in Three Parts, 85

Preface,

Notes on Part I.

...

Notes on Part III.

Britannia Rediviva, a Poem on the Birth of the

Prologues and Epilogues,

Mack-Flecknoe, a Satire against Thomas Shadwell, 425

Notes,

441