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THE

MISCELLANEOUS WORKS

OF

JOHN DRYDEN, Efq;

CONTAINING ALL HIS

ORIGINAL POEMS, TALES,

AN D

TRANSLATION S.

Now firft Collected and Published together

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

WITH

EXPLANATORY NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS.

ALSO AN

ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS.

VOLUME THE FIRST.

LONDON:

Printed for J. and R. TONSON, in the Strand,

MDCCLX.

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

42898

ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

то

HIS GRACE

The DUKE of NEWCASTLE.

MY LORD,

IF

F I prefume to address to your Grace these Miscellanies of one of our greatest English poets, now first collected and illuftrated with Notes; perhaps the acknowledged eminence of the author may apologise for the inconfiderableness of the editor. To whom can these poems be more properly inscribed than to such 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 lefs than his difcernment?

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