THE

POEMS

OF

John Dryden.

VOL. III.

Chiswick:

FROM THE PRESS OF C. WHITTINGHAM,

COLLEGE HOUSE.

CONTENTS.

Page

ELEGIES AND EPITAPHS.

On the Death of Lord Hastings, 1649..

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham, 1683........

To the pious Memory of the accomplished young Lady,

Mrs. Anne Killigrew........

Upon the Death of the Earl of Dundee, 1689..............................

Dedication. Inscribed to Eleonora, the Earl of Abing-

Eleonora. A panegyrical Poem. To the Memory of the

late Countess of Abingdon

17

On the Death of Amyntas. A pastoral Elegy.

On the Death of a very young Gentleman..........

Upon young Master Rogers of Gloucestershire..

On the Death of Mr. Purcell..

Epitaph on the Lady Whitmore........

on Sir Palmes Fairbone's Tomb in Westminster

Abbey

Under Milton's Picture, before his Paradise Lost........

On the Monument of a fair maiden Lady, who died at

Bath, and is there interred...

Epitaph on Mrs. Margaret Paston, of Burningham, in

Norfolk........

On the Monument of the Marquis Winchester, 1674..... 44

Epitaph upon the Earl of Rochester's being dismissed

from the Treasury, in 1687...

45

Page

Epitaph. Intended for Dryden's Wife.......

45

Epigram. On the Duchess of Portsmouth's Picture.... 46

Description of old Jacob Tonson...................

46

ODES.

Alexander's Feast.........

Veni Creator Spiritus, paraphrased........

FABLES.

FROM BOCCACE AND CHAUCER.

Dedication to the Duke of Ormond...................

to the Duchess of Ormond........

Palamon and Arcite: or, The Knight's Tale. From

The Cock and the Fox: or, the Tale of the Nun's Priest.

From Chaucer.......

168

Theodore and Honoria. From Boccace......

193

The Flower and the Leaf: or, the Lady in the Arbour.

From Chaucer......

206

Cymon and Iphigenia. From Boccace.......

225

The Wife of Bath: her Tale. From Chaucer....... 245

The Character of a good Parson; imitated from Chaucer,

and enlarged....................

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262