THE

WORKS

OF

JOHN DRYDEN.

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. XVII.

EDINBURGH :

PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH ;
AND HURST, ROBINSON, AND CO. LONDON.

1821.

1

Dedication to the Duke of Ormond, &c.

Specimen of the Translation of the History of the

League,

The Author's Advertisement to the Reader, 93

The History of the League, Book III. 101

Postscript to the History of the League,. 150

Controversy between Dryden and Stillingfleet concern-

ing the Duchess of York's Paper,

Copy of a Paper written by the late Duchess

of York, &c.

185

194

An Answer to the Duchess's Paper by the

Rev. Edward Stillingfleet,

A Defence of the Paper written by the Du-

chess of York, against the Answer made

to it, .

An Answer to the Defence of the Third

Paper,.

208