THE
WORKS
OF
JOHN DRYDEN,

NOW FIRST COLLECTED

IN EIGHTEEN VOLUMES.

ILLUSTRATED

WITH NOTES,

HISTORICAL, CRITICAL, AND EXPLANATORY,

AND

A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

BY

WALTER SCOTT, Esq.

VOL. X.

LONDON:

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

1808.

CONTENTS
OF
VOLUME TENTH.

PAGE.
[Religio Laici, or a Layman's Faith, an Epistle,][1]
[Preface,][11]
[Threnodia Augustalis, a Funeral Pindaric Poem, sacred
to the happy Memory of King Charles II.]		[53]
[Notes,][79]
[The Hind and the Panther, a Poem, in Three Parts,][85]
[Preface,][109]
[Notes on Part I.][139]
[Part II.][159]
[Notes on Part II.][185]
[Part III.][195]
[Notes on Part III.][240]
[Britannia Rediviva, a Poem on the Birth of the Prince,][283]
[Notes,][302]
[Prologues and Epilogues,][309]
[Mack-Flecknoe, a Satire against Thomas Shadwell,][425]
[Notes,][441]

RELIGIO LAICI:
OR,
A LAYMAN'S FAITH.
AN EPISTLE.

Ornari res ipsa negat; contenta doceri.

ARGUMENT.
TAKEN FROM THE AUTHOR'S MARGINAL NOTES.

Opinions of the several Sects of Philosophers concerning the Summum bonum.—System of Deism.—Of Revealed Religion.—Objection of the Deist.—Objection answered.—Digression to the Translator of Father Simon's Critical Edition of the Old Testament.—Of the Infallibility of Tradition in general.—Objection in behalf of Tradition, urged by Father Simon.—The Second Objection.—Answered.