1. From an original portraits in the Picture Gattery at Oxford: probably painted in his thirty third year? – 1664.

2. From a print engraved by Faithorne, fun, after Closterman's picture, painted probably about the year 1690.

3. From a portrait painted by Sir Godfrey Kudler in 1698.

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 I.

LONDON:

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

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

M,DCCC.