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.
[i]
CONTENTS
OF
VOLUME NINTH.
| PAGE. |
| Poems, Historical and Political. | |
| Heroic Stanzas to the Memory of Oliver Cromwell, | 3 |
| Notes, | 15 |
| Astrea Redux, | 25 |
| Notes, | 41 |
| To his Sacred Majesty, a Panegyric on his Coronation, | 53 |
| Notes, | 59 |
| To Lord Chancellor Hyde, presented on New-year's-day, 1662, | 63 |
| Satire on the Dutch, | 71 |
| To her Royal Highness the Duchess of York, on the | |
| Victory gained by the Duke over the Dutch, &c. | 73 |
| Notes, | 79 |
| Annus Mirabilis, the Year of Wonders, 1666, an Historical Poem, | 81 |
| Dedication to the Metropolis of Great Britain, | 89 |
| An Account of Annus Mirabilis, in a Letter |
| to the Hon. Sir Robert Howard, | 92 |
| Notes, | 158 |
| Absalom and Achitophel, Part I. | 195[ii] |
| To the Reader, | 208 |
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