THE

WORKS

OF

JOHN DR Y DEN.

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. XVII. .

LONDON :

PRINTED FOR WILLIAM MILLER, ALBEMARLE STREET,

BY JAMES BALLANTYNE AND CO. EDINBURGH,

1808.

CONTENTS

OP

VOLUME SEVENTEENTH.

PAGE,

The Life of Plutarch,

1

Dedication to the Duke of Ormond, &c. 5

Specimen of the Translation of the History of the

League, ...

77

Dedication to the King,

81

The Author's Advertisement to the Reader, 93

The History of the League, Book III. .. 101

Postscript to the History of the League, 150

Controversy between Dryden and Stillingfleet con-

cerning the Duchess of York's Paper,

185

Copy of a Paper written by the late Duchess

of York, &c. ..

.. 189

An Answer to the Duchess's Paper by the

Rev, Edward Stillingfleet,

194

A Defence of the Paper written by the

Duchess of York, against the Answer

made to it,

208

An Answer to the Defence of the Third

Paper,

852