THE

WORKS

OF

JOHN DRYDEN,

NOW FIRST COLLECTED

IN EIGHTEEN VOLUMES.

ILLUSTRATED

WITH NOTES,

HISTORICAL, CRITICAL, AND EXPLANATORY,

AND

A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

BY

SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.

SECOND EDITION.

VOL. XII.

EDINBURGH:

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1821.

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The First Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses,

Meleager and Atalanta,

Baucis and Philemon,

Esacus transformed into a Cormorant,

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