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Title: On the conquest of Mexico
Author: Dryden, John
Date(s): 1664
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Part of the prologue to Dryden and Howard's play "The Indian Queen", in which
the natives of Mexico realise that the Spanish conquest has brought their
idyllic paradisal life to an end
Title: Alexander's feast
Author: Dryden, John
Date(s): 1697 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Extracts from Dryden's poem on Alexander the Great's feast after his victory
over Persia, demonstrating the power of music to sway emotions before the time
of St Cecilia
Title: Virgil's first pastoral, or Tityrus and Meliboeus. [The Argument follows.]
Author: Dryden, John
Date(s): 1697 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Translation of Virgil's first Pastoral, or Eclogue, in which the shepherd
Tityrus relates his good fortune in being able to remain on his native land as
a result of Maecenas's patronage.
Title: Second pastoral, or Alexis. [The Argument follows.]
Author: Dryden, John
Date(s): 1697 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Translation of Virgil's second Pastoral, or Eclogue, in which the shepherd
Corydon expresses his unrequited love for Alexis
Title: Third pastoral, or Palaemon. Menalcas, Dametas, Palaemon. [The Argument
follows.]
Author: Dryden, John
Date(s): 1697 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Translation of Virgil's third Pastoral, or Eclogue, in which Palaemon judges
that the shepherds Menalcas and Damaetas both deserve the prize after
listening to their singing contest
Title: Fourth pastoral, or Pollio. [The Argument follows.]
Author: Dryden, John
Date(s): 1684 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Translation of Virgil's fourth Pastoral, or Eclogue, in which the poet
celebrates the birth of Salonius, son of the consul Pollio, as beginning a new
golden age of universal peace and plenty
Title: Fifth pastoral, or Daphnis. [The Argument follows.]
Author: Dryden, John
Date(s): 1697 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Translation of Virgil's fifth Pastoral, or Eclogue, in which the shepherds
Menalcas and Mopsus sing elegiac laments for the death of Daphnis, praising
and deifying him
Title: Sixth pastoral, or Silenus. [The Argument follows.]
Author: Dryden, John
Date(s): 1697 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Translation of Virgil's sixth Pastoral, or Eclogue, in which the satyr
Silenus sings of the creation of the world and subsequent events in classical
history and legend
Title: The first book of Virgil's Georgics. [The Argument follows.]
Author: Dryden, John
Date(s): 1697 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Translation of Virgil's "Georgics", I, a treatise on agriculture and
weather-lore, requesting assistance for his enterprise from the gods and
Augustus Caesar, praising and deifying him.
Title: The second book of the Georgics. [The Argument follows.]
Author: Dryden, John
Date(s): 1697 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Translation of Virgil's "Georgics", II, a treatise on agriculture,
particularly horticulture, tree-planting and soils, including praise of Italy
and of the quiet virtues of country life contrasted with court and town
Title: The third book of the Georgics. [The Argument follows.]
Author: Dryden, John
Date(s): 1697 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Translation of Virgil's "Georgics", III, largely a treatise on the breeding
and care of animals, particularly horses, cattle and sheep, including
descriptions of country life and praise of Augustus Caesar.
Title: Epitaph on Mrs Margaret Paston, of Barningham in Norfolk
Author: Dryden, John
Attribution: Mr Dryden
Date(s): 1712 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Epitaph on Margaret Paston, praising her virtues
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"