336 AND TRANSLATIONS, BY JOHN DRYDEN, Efq; VOLUME the FIRST, CONTAINING POEMS on feveral OCCASIONS. ཋ LONDON: Printed for J. and R. TONSON in the Strand. MDCCXLIII. PREFACE. T HE Publick is here obliged with the Poetical Works of Mr. DRYDEN, detach'd from the Compofitions of inferior Writers, with which moft of them have been hitherto blended in the Mifcellanies *. It was thought but Justice to the Productions of fo excellent a Poet, to fet them free at laft from so disadvantageous, if not unnatural, an Union; which, like the Cruelty of Mezentius in Virgil, was no lefs than a Junction of living and dead Bodies *Thofe publish'd by Mr. DRYDEN himself in Six Parts, and others. |