THE

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CRITICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS

PROSE WORKS

OF

JOHN DRYDEN,

NOW FIRST COLLECTED:

WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS;

AN ACCOUNT OF THE

LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THE AUTHOR,

GROUNDED ON

ORIGINAL AND AUTHENTICK DOCUMENTS;

AND

A COLLECTION OF HIS LETTERS,

THE GREATER PART OF WHICH HAS NEVER BEFORE
BEEN PUBLISHED.

BY EDMOND MALONE, Esq.

VOL. I. PART II.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY H. BALDWIN AND SON, NEW BRIDGE-STREET,

FOR T. CADELL, JUN. AND W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND.

M.DCCC.

APPENDIX to the Life

Numb. I. Dryden's Patent.

II. Contract concerning the FABLES, &c. 560

III. Russel's Bill of Charges for his

IV. Epitaph in Tichmarsh Church, on

Dryden and his Ancestors.

V. List of Persons, in whose Cabinets

Letters written by Dryden pro-

562

564

bably may be found

567

VOL. I. PART II.

LETTERS from Dryden to several Persons.

LETTER

I. To Madam Honor Dryden

II. To John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

III. To the Rev. Dr. Busby

IV. To the same

V. To Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester.

VOL. I. PART II.

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LETTER

VI. To Jacob Tonson

VII. From Jacob Tonson to Dryden.

VIII. To Jacob Tonson..

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XXI. To the Author's sons at Rome

XXII. To Jacob Tonson

XXIII. To the same

XXIV. To the same

XXV. To Mrs. Steward

XXVI. To Elmes Steward, Esq.

XXVII. To Mrs. Steward

XXVIII. To the same

XXIX. To the same

XXX. To the same

XXXI. To the same

XXXII. To the same

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LETTER

XXXVI. To the Right Honourable Charles

Montague

XXXVII. To Mrs. Steward..

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888

90

92

XXXVIII. To Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, Jun. 96

XLII. To Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, Jun. 108

XLIII. To Mrs. Steward

XLIV. To the same

XLV. To the same

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ADDITIONS and EMENDATIONS

PROLEGOMENA.

Dedication of THE RIVAL LADIES to
Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery

i Preface to Sir Robert Howard's Plays ..

Dedication of the ESSAY OF DRAMATICK

POESY to Charles, Lord Buckhurst

ESSAY OF DRAMATICK POESY

Defence of the ESSAY OF DRAMATICK POESY 143

: Preface to THE MOCK ASTROLOGER

ESSAY OF HEROICK PLAYS

Defence of the Epilogue to the Second Part of

THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA

Heads of an Answer to Rymer's Treatise on

the Tragedies of the last Age.

Preface to THE WILD GALLANT