THE

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-ST.,

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

II. Contract concerning the FABLES,&c. 560

III. Russel's Bill of Charges for his

Funeral.

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

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

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3

6

13

15

19

LETTER

VI. To Jacob Tonson

VII. From Jacob Tonson to Dryden

VIII. To Jacob Tonson..

IX. To John Dennis

X. To Jacob Tonson

XI. To the same

XII. To the same

Page

21

25

28

30

38

40

41

43

45

46

48

49

XVIII. To the same

50

LETTER

XXXVI. To the Right Honourable Charles

Montague

XXXVII. To Mrs. Steward.

XXXVIII. To Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, Jun.

XXXIX. To the same

XL. To Mrs. Steward

Page

8838

101

104

XLII. To Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, Jun. 108

Dedication of THE RIVAL LADIES 10

Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery

3

Preface to Sir Robert Howard's Plays.. 15

Dedication of the ESSAY OF DRAMATICK

POESY to Charles, Lord Buckhurst

25

Defence of the Epilogue to the Second Part of

THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA

The Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy

Heads of an Answer to Rymer's Treatise on

the Tragedies of the last Age

Preface to THE WILD GALLANT

225

255

299

315