other Recompence to make you, than the Worthy Labours of my Fellow-Undertakers in this Work, and the Thankful Acknowledgements, Prayers and perpetual good Wishes of, A Table of JUVENAL. THE First Satyr. By Mr. Dryden. The Second Satyr. By Mr. Tate. The Third Satyr. By Mr. Dryden. Page 1 13 22 The Fourth Satyr. By the Reverend Mr. Richard Duke. 40 The Fifth Satyr. By the Reverend Mr. William Bowles. 52 The Sixth Satyr. By Mr. Dryden. 62 The Seventh Satyr. By Mr. Charles Dryden. 93 The Eighth Satyr. The Ninth Satyr. By Mr. Step. Hervey. The Tenth Satyr. By Mr. Dryden. The Eleventh Satyr. 132 141 By Mr. Congreve, 161 The Twelfth Satyr. By Mr. Power. 177 The Thirteenth Satyr. The Fourteenth Satyr. By Mr. J. Dryden, Jun. 200 The Fifteenth Satyr. By Mr. Tate. 217 The Sixteenth Satyr. By Mr. Dryden. 226 [1] ARSINGHE JUVE NA L. THE FIRST SATY R. By Mr. DRYDEN. The ARGUMENT. The Poet gives us first a kind of humorous Reason for bis Writing: That being provoked by hearing fo many ill Poets rehearse their Works, he does himJelf fuftice on them, by giving them as bad as they bring. But fince no Man will rank himself with all Writers, 'tis eafy to conclude, that if fuch Wretches could draw an Audience, he thought it no hard matter to excel them, and gain a greater Efteem with the Publick. Next he informs us more openly, why he rather addicts himself to Satyr, than any other kind of Poetry. And here be difcovers that it is not fo much bis Indignation to ill Poets, as to ill Men, which has prompted him to write. He therefore gives us a fummary and general View of the Vices and Follies reigning in his Time. So that this first Satyr is the natural B Ground |