THE

WORKS

OE:

JOHN DRYDEN,

NOW FIRST COLLECTED

IN EIGHTEEN VOLUMES.

ILLUSTRATED

WITH NOTES,

HISTORICAL, CRITICAL, AND EXPLANATORY,

AND

A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

BY

SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.

SECOND EDITION

VOL. X.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH;

AND HURST, ROBINSON, AND CO. LONDON.

1821.

m San

PUBLIC LIDRARY

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

1084 L

Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. Edinburgh.

CONTENTS

OF

VOLUME TENTH.

PAGE

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

1

Preface,

11

Threnodia Augustalis, a Funeral Pindaric Poem, sacred

to the happy Memory of King Charles II.

53

Notes,

79

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

Preface,

109

Notes on Part I.

139

Part II.

159

Notes on Part II.

185

Part III.

195

Notes on Part III.

240

Britannia Rediviva, a Poem on the Birth of the Prince, 283

Notes,

302

Prologues and Epilogues,

309

Mac-Flecknoe, a Satire against Thomas Shadwell, . 425

Notes,

441

.