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. IX.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR WILLIAM MILLer, albemarle street,

BY JAMES BALLANTYNE AND CO. EDINBURGH.

1808.

Add to Lib.

CIFT

POEMS, HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL.

Heroic Stanzas to the Memory of Oliver Cromwell,

To his Sacred Majesty, a Panegyric on his Corona-

To her Royal Highness the Duchess of York, on the

Victory gained by the Duke over the Dutch, &c.

Notes,

Annus Mirabilis, the Year of Wonders, 1666, an

Historical Poem,.

Dedication to the Metropolis of Great

. Britain,.

....

An Account of Annus Mirabilis, in a Let-

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73

79

81

89

ter to the Hon. Sir Robert Howard,.. 92

Notes,

158

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