1. From

an

JOHN DRYDEN.

original portrait 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 Kneller 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.

PR 3411

M25

v.l, pt.1

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-

bably may be found.

562

564

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

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