THE
WORKS
OF
JOHN DRYDEN,

NOW FIRST COLLECTED

IN EIGHTEEN VOLUMES.

ILLUSTRATED

WITH NOTES,

HISTORICAL, CRITICAL, AND EXPLANATORY,

AND

A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

WALTER SCOTT, Esq.

VOL. VIII.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR WILLIAM MILLER, ALBEMARLE STREET,
BY JAMES BALLANTYNE AND CO. EDINBURGH.

1808.

CONTENTS
OF VOLUME EIGHTH.

	PAGE.
Amphitryon, or the Two Sosias, a Comedy,	[1]
Epistle Dedicatory to Sir William Leveson Gower, Bart.	[7]
King Arthur, or the British Worthy, a Dramatic Opera,	[107]
Epistle Dedicatory to the Marquis of Halifax,	[113]
Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy,	[181]
Epistle Dedicatory to the Earl of Rochester,	[191]
Preface,	[196]
The Life of Cleomenes, translated from Plutarch by Mr Thomas Creech,	[207]
Love Triumphant, or Nature will prevail, a Tragi-comedy,	[331]
Epistle Dedicatory to the Earl of Salisbury,	[337]
Prologue, Song, Secular Masque, and Epilogue,
written for the Pilgrim, revived for Dryden's benefit in 1700,	[437]

Egregiam verò laudem, et spolia ampla refertis,

Una dolo Divûm si fæmina victa duorum est. Virg.