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Title: Prologue to The Prophetess [1690 May, Mr Dridens Prologue to The
Prophetesse. Verses Misc. Cupbd (?) (verso)].
Author: Dryden, John
Attribution: Mr Dryden
Date(s): 1690 (published)
Manuscript: Lt q 11
Contents: Dryden's prologue to the musical play "The Prophetess" by Thomas Betterton,
alluding critically to current affairs, especially the expense of William
III's Irish wars; with the men away, the theatre will depend on the support of
women.
Title: Juno's promis to Eolus to raise a storm agai[n]st Eneis
Author: Dryden, John
Date(s): 1697 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: Extracts from Dryden's translation of Virgil's "Aenied" (I.105-11, 176-7,
188-200) in which Juno urges Aeolus, god of the winds, to raise a storm
against Aeneas's ship, only for the winds to be rebuked by Neptune
Title: Fame
Author: Dryden, John
Date(s): 1697 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: Extract from Dryden's translation of Virgil's "Aeneid" (IV.252, 255-73)
describing fame, or rumour, as a malicious winged monster of many eyes, mouths
and ears
Title: [unknown]
Author: Dryden, John
Date(s): 1697 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: Extract from Dryden's translation of Virgil's "Aeneid" (III.628-31), in which
Andromache gives a present to Aeneas's son
Title: [unknown]
Author: Dryden, John
Attribution: Dryden
Date(s): 1694 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: On the suffering that jealousy causes lovers, abridged from a song in
Dryden's play "Love Triumphant"
Title: [unknown]
Author: Dryden, John
Date(s): 1693 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: On God's creation of mankind, translated from Ovid's "Metamorphoses", I,
quoted here as four separate extracts within an abridged copy of Book I,
Chapter 1, of George Stanhope's translation ("Of Wisdom", 1697) of Pierre
Charron's "De la sagesse".
Title: [unknown]
Author: Dryden, John
Date(s): 1681 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 34
Contents: Song in which a woman complains of being abandoned by her lover, and of men's
unfaithfulness in love in general. From Dryden's play, "The Spanish Friar",
V.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Dryden, John
Date(s): 1685 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 34
Contents: Bawdy song in which a young woman is introduced to the pleasures of
love-making. At end, "To the tune of".
Title: [unknown]
Author: Dryden, John
Date(s): 1685 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 34
Contents: Pastoral love song, the lamenting lover asking an intermediary to tell his
beloved the extent of his sufferings and the nearness of his death
Title: Veni creator spiritus, translated into paraphrase
Author: Dryden, John
Attribution: Mr Dryden; [Latin]
Date(s): 1693 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 67
Contents: Religious poem, a free translation of a medieval Latin hymn, celebrating the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
Title: Mac-Fleckno
Author: Dryden, John
Date(s): 1676 ?
Manuscript: Lt 54
Contents: Satire on Thomas Shadwell as the epitome of dullness.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Dryden, John
Date(s): 1670 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 54
Contents: Verses on fate and fortune, from Act 3 of Dryden's play "The Tempest"