THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

JOHN DRYDEN.

VOLUME III.

BOSTON:

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

NEW YORK: EVANS & DICKERSON.

PHILADELPHIA: LIPPINCOTT, GRAMBO, & CO.

M.DCCC.LIV.

HARVARD UN RSITY LIBRARY

CAMBRIDGE:

STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY METCALF AND COMPANY,

PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.

CONTENTS.

VOL. III.

SONGS, ODES, AND A MASQUE.

The Fair Stranger, a Song

On the Young Statesmen

A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687

Song. Farewell, Fair Armida

The Lady's Song

6

Song, Fair, sweet, and young, receive a prize'

Song, 'High state and honours to others impart'

Song, 'Go tell Amynta, gentle swain'

Song to a Fair Young Lady

Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Music

Veni Creator Spiritus, paraphrased

The Secular Masque

Song of a Scholar and his Mistress

Songs in the Indian Emperor

Prologue to the Rival Ladies

Prologue to the Indian Queen

Epilogue to the Indian Queen