POEMS，HISTORICAL，POLITICAL，AND CONTROVERSIAL． 1
A POEM UPON THE DEATH OF HIS LATE HIGHNESS，OLIVER，LORD PROTECTOR OF ENGLAND，SCOTLAND，AND IRELAND 3
ASTRAEA REDUX．A POEM ON THE HAPPY RESTORATION AND RETURN OF HIS SACRED MAJESTY CHARLES THE SECOND 13
To HIS SACRED MAJESTY，A PANEGYRIC ON HIS CORONATION 24
To MY LORD CHANCELLOR．PRESENTED ON NEW YEAR＇S DAY，1662 28
VERSES TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS，ON THE MEMORABLE VICTORY GAINED BY THE DUKE AGAINST THE HOLLANDERS，JUNE 3，1665，AND ON HER JOURNEY AFTERWARDS INTO THE NORTH 32
ANNUS MIRABILIS：THE YEAR OF WONDERS，1666 35
ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL 87
THE MEDAL．A SATIRE AGAINST SEDITION 121
THREE POLITICAL PROLOGUES．1682 136
MAC FLECKNOE；OR，A SATIRE ON THE TRUE BLUE PROTESTANT POET，T．S． 141
THE SECOND PART OF ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL 151
RELIGIO-LAICI；OR，A LAYMAN＇S FAITH 183
THRENODIA AUGUSTALIS．A FUNERAL-PINDARIC POEM．TO THE HAPPY MEMORY OF KING CHARLES II 203
THE HIND AND THE PANTHER．A POEM．IN THREE PARTS 219
BRITANNIA REDIVIVA．A POEM ON THE BIRTH OF THE PRINCE 258
EPISTLES AND COMPLIMENTARY ADDRESSES． 297
To John Hoddesdon，on his Divine Epigrams 299
To my honoured friend Sir Robert Howard，on his excellent Poems 300
To my honoured friend Dr．Charleton，on his learned and useful Works，and more particularly this of Stonehenge，by him restored to the true Founders 303
To the Lady Castlemaine，upon her encouraging his first Play 305
To Mr．Lee，on his Alexander 306
To the Earl of Roscomon，on his excellent Essay on Translated Verse 308
To my friend Mr．Norihleigh，Author of the Parallel，on his Triumph of the British Monarchy 310
To my ingenious friend，Henry Higden，Esq．，on his Translation of the Tenth Satire of Juvenal 310
A Letter to Sir George Etherege 311
To Mr．Southern，on his Comedy called＂The Wives＇ Excuse＂ 314
To my dear friend，Mr．Congreve，on his Comedy called＂The Double Dealer＂ 315
To Sir Godfrey Kneller，principal Painter to his Majesty 317
To Mr．Granville，on his excellent Tragedy called＂Heroic Love＂ 321
To my friend Mr．Motteux，on his Tragedy called＂Beauty in Distress＂ 322
To my honoured kinsman，John Driden，of Chesterton，in the county of Huntingdon，Esq． 324
ELEGIES AND EPITAPHS． 331
Upon the Death of the Lord Hastings 333
On the Monument of the Marquis of Winchester 336
To the Memory of Mr．Oldham 337
To the pious Memory of the accomplished young lady Mrs．Anne Killigrew，excellent in the two Sister Arts of Poesy and Painting 338
Upon the Death of the Viscount of Dundee 343
Epitaph on the Lady Whitmore 344
Eleonora：a Panegyrical Poem．Dedicated to the Memory of the late Countess of Abingdon 345
On the Death of Mr．Purcell 358
On the Monument of a fair Maiden Lady who died at Bath and is there interred 359
On the Death of Amyntas．A Pastoral Elegy 360
On the Death of a very Young Gentleman 362
Upon young Mr．Rogers，of Gloucestershire 363
On Mrs．Margaret Paston，of Barningham，in Norfolk 364
SONGS，ODES，AND LYRICAL PIECES． 365
Song (Farewell，fair Armida) 367
The Tears of Amynta for the Death of Damon 368
Song 369
The beautiful Lady of the May 371
A Song to a fair Young Lady going out of Town in the Spring 372
Alexander＇s Feast；or，the Power of Music 373
A Song 377
Roundelay 378
A Song 379
A Song 380
Song of a Scholar and his Mistress，who，being crossed by their Friends，fell mad for one another，and now first meet in Bedlam 384
PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES． 387
Prologue and Epilogue to＂The Wild Gallant＂ 389
Prologue to＂The Rival Ladies＂ 391
Prologue and Epilogue to＂The Indian Emperor＂ 392
Prologue to＂Secret Love，or the Maiden Queen＂ 393
Prologue and Epilogue to＂The Wild Gallant，＂when revived in 1667 396
Prologue and Epilogue to＂Sir Martin Mar-all，or the Feigned Innocence＂ 398
Prologue and Epilogue to＂The Tempest＂ 399
Prologue to＂Albumazar＂ 401
Prologue and Epilogue to＂An Evening＇s Love，or the Mock Astrologer＂ 403
Prologue and Epilogue to＂Tyrannic Love，or the Royal Martyr＂ 405
Prologue and Epilogue to＂Almanzor and Almahide，or the Conquest of Granada＂ 407
Prologue and Epilogue to the Second Part of＂Almanzor and Almahide，or the Conquest of Granada＂ 409
Prologue spoken on the First Day of the King＇s House acting after the Fire 410
Prologue to＂Arviragus and Philicia＂ 411
Prologue for the Women，when they acted at the Old Theatre in Lincoln＇s Inn Fields 412
Prologue and Epilogue to＂The Maiden Queen，or Secret Love，＂when acted by the Women only 413
Prologue and Epilogue to＂Marriage-à-la-Mode＂ 414
Prologue and Epilogue to＂The Assignation，or Love in a Nunnery＂ 417
Prologue and Epilogue to＂Amboyna，or the Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants＂ 418
Prologue and Epilogue to the University of Oxford 420
Prologue and Epilogue spoken at the Opening of the New House 423
Prologue and Epilogue to the University of Oxford 425
Prologue and Epilogue to＂Aureng-Zebe，or the Great Mogul＂ 427
Epilogue to＂Calista，or the chaste Nymph＂ 429
Epilogue to＂The Man of Mode，or Sir Fopling Flutter＂ 430
Prologue to＂Circe＂ 431
Prologue and Epilogue to＂All for Love，or the World Well Lost＂ 432
Epilogue to＂Mithridates，King of Pontus＂ 434
Prologue and Epilogue to＂The Kind Keeper，or Limberham＂ 435
Prologue to＂The True Widow＂ 437
Prologue and Epilogue to＂OEdipus＂ 438
Prologue and Epilogue to＂Troilus and Cressida，or Truth found Too Late＂ 439
Prologue to＂Caesar Borgia，Son of Pope Alexander the Sixth＂ 441
Prologue to the University of Oxford 442
Prologue to＂The Loyal General＂ 443
Prologue to＂The Spanish Friar，or the Double Discovery＂ 444
Epilogue to＂Tamerlane the Great＂ 446
Prologue and Epilogue to＂The Princess of Cleves＂ 447
Prologue to the University of Oxford 449
Prologue to the University of Oxford 450
Prologue to the University of Oxford 451
Epilogue to＂The Unhappy Favourite，or the Earl of Essex＂ 452
Prologue and Epilogue to＂The Loyal Brother，or the Persian Prince＂ 453
Prologue and Epilogue to the King and Queen 456
Prologue and Epilogue to＂The Duke of Guise＂ 458
Epilogue to＂Constantine the Great＂ 462
Prologue to＂Disappointment，or the Mother in Fashion＂ 463
Prologue and Epilogue to＂Albion and Albanius＂ 465
Prologue and Epilogue to＂Don Sebastian＂ 467
Prologue to＂The Prophetess＂ 469
Prologue and Epilogue to＂Amphitryon，or the Two Sosias＂ 470
Prologue to＂Mistakes，or the False Report＂ 472
Prologue and Epilogue to＂King Arthur，or the British Worthy＂ 473
Prologue and Epilogue to＂Cleomenes，or the Spartan Hero＂ 475
Epilogue to＂Henry II．，King of England，with the Death of Rosamond＂ 478
Prologue and Epilogue to＂Love Triumphant，or Nature will Prevail＂ 479
Epilogue to＂The Husband his own Cuckold＂ 481
Prologue and Epilogue on the Occasion of a Representation for Dryden＇s Benefit 482
TRANSLATIONS FROM CHAUCER AND BOCCACIO． 487
To her Grace the Duchess of Ormond，with the following Poem of Palamon and Arcite from Chaucer 507
Palamon and Arcite，or the Knight＇s Tale．From Chaucer．In Three Books 512
The Cock and the Fox，or the Tale of the Nun＇s Priest．From Chaucer 564
The Flower and the Leaf，or the Lady in the Arbour．A Vision 581
The Wife of Bath her Tale 594
The Character of a Good Parson．Imitated from Chaucer，and enlarged 605
Sigismonda and Guiscardo．From Boccace 608
Theodore and Honoria．From Boccace 624
Cymon and Iphigenia．From Boccace 633
TRANSLATIONS OF LATIN HYMNS AND MINOR MISCELLANIES． 647
Veni，Creator Splritus．Translated in Paraphrase 649
Te Deum 650
Hymn for St．John＇s Eve，29th June 651
Lines printed under the Engraved Portrait of Milton，in Tonson＇s folio edition of the＂Paradise Lost，＂1688 652
Fragment of a Character of Jacob Tonson，his Publisher 653
GLOSSARY 655