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

SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.

SECOND EDITION.

VOL. IX.

EDINBURGH :

PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH ;

AND HURST, ROBINSON, AND CO. LONDON.

1821.

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To his Sacred Majesty, a Panegyric on his Coronation, 53

To Lord Chancellor Hyde, presented on New-Year's-

day, 1662,

63

Satire on the Dutch,

71

Notes,

To her Royal Highness the Duchess of York, on the

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

Annus Mirabilis, the Year of Wonders, 1666, an His-

torical Poem,

Dedication to the Metropolis of Great Britain,

An Account of Annus Mirabilis, in a Letter

to the Hon. Sir Robert Howard,

Notes,.

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