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THE

MISCELLANEOUS WORKS

OF

JOHN DRYDEN, Efq;

CONTAINING ALL HIS

ORIGINAL POEMS, TALES,

AND

TRANSLATION S.

Now firft Collected and Published together

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

WITH

EXPLANATORY NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS.

ALSÓ AN

ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS.

VOLUME THE FIRST.

LONDON:

Printed for J. and R. TONS ON, in the Strand.
MDCCLX.

Koninklijke Bibliotheck te's lage.

то

HIS GRACE

The DUKE of NEWCASTLE,

MY LORD,

IF I to your

F I prefume to addrefs to your Grace these Miscellanies of one of our greatest English poets, now first collected and illustrated with Notes; perhaps the acknowledged eminence of the author may apologise for the inconfiderableness of the editor. To whom can thefe poems be more properly inscribed than to fuch a patron as Dryden himself would have chosen; a nobleman of the first distinction, known to love polite learning, because he understands and tastes it; and eminent for his candour, no less than his difcernment?

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