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.

PUBLIC LIBRARY

33

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Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. Edinburgh, CONTENTS

OF

VOLUME NINTH.

POEMS, HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL.

PAGE.

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 His-

torical 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