CRITICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
PROSE WORKS

Or
JOHN DRYDEN,.

NOW FIRST COLLECTED:
WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS;

AN ACCOUNT OF THE

LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THE AUTHOR,

CROUNDED ON

ORIGINAL AND AUTHENTICK DOCUMENTS,

AND

A COLLECTION OF HIS LETTERS,

THE GREATER PART OF WHICH HAS NEVER BEFORS

BEEN PUBLISHED.

By EDMOND MALONE, Esq.

VOL. I. PART I.

LONDON:

2WINTLD DY K. BALDWIN AND SON, NEW BRIDC2-STRLIT,
FOR T. CADILL, JUN, AND W. DAVIDS, IN THE STRAXD.

M.DCCC.

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