Vanish with all the ministers of hell:

His rays their poisonous vapours fhall difpel: 'Tis he alone our fafety did create,

His own firm foul fecur'd the nation's fate,
Oppos'd to all the Boutefeus of the state.
Authors for him your great endeavours raise;
The loftieft numbers will but reach his praife.
For me, whofe verfe in fatire has been bred,
And never durft heroic measures tread;
Yet you fhall fee
me, in that famous field,

With eyes and voice, my beft affiftance yield;
Offer you leffons, that my infant mufe

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Learnt, when the Horace for her guide did chufe:

Second your zeal with withes, heart, and eyes,
And afar off hold up the glorious prize.
But pardon too, if zealous for the right,
A ftrict obferver of each noble flight,
From the fine gold I feparate the allay,
And show how hafty writers fometimes stray :
Apter to blame, than knowing how to mend
A fharp, but yet a neceffary friend.

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INDEX.

A.

ABDAEL, Vide Albemarle, Duke of
Abingdon, Countess of, account of, Vol. ii. 279
Earl of, dedication to, ib. 273

Abfalom, Vide Monmouth, Duke of
Abfalom and Achitophel, Part I.

i. 197

explanation of the poem,
ib. 199

titles of replies to, ib. 207.
II. ib. 273

addrefs to the reader, ib.

275

remarks on, ib. lxxxii.

272, 275

key to, ib. 337

* Account of the Countess of Abingdon, ii. 279

Duke of Albemarle, i. 323

Annus Mirabilis, in a letter to Sir R.
Howard, ib. 78

Lord Arlington, ib. 324

Sir Thomas Armstrong, ib. 179
the Earl of Aylesbury, ib. 182
Slingsby Bethel, Efq. ib. 245
the Hon. Robert Boyle, ii. 195
Duke of Buckingham, i. 240
Calvin, ii. 23

The names of the perfons mentioned under the heads "Account,"
"Anecdotes," and "Characters," may also be found under their respective
letters.

Account of Lady Caftlemain, ii. 199
Dr. Charleton, ib. 198
George Cooper, Efq. i. 349
the Earl of Danby, ib. 182
Dorset, ib. 198

Sir John Earnely, ib. 182
the Earl of Effex, ib. 185
Sir George Etherege, ii. 214
Robert Ferguson, i. 292, 346
the Earl of Feverfham, ib. 326
Richard Flecknoe, ii. 169
Dr. William Gilbert, ib. 195
the Duke of Grafton, i. 325
Lord Grey, of Werk, ib. 243
the Marquis of Halifax, ib. 263
Jack Hall, ib. 192

Lady E. Haftings, ib. 2

Lord Herbert, of Ragland, ib. 323
Sir George Hewet, ib. 192
Heywood, ii. 176

Edward Howard, Efq. i. 190
Lord Howard, of Efcrick, ib. 243
Sir Robert Howard, ii. 185, 186
Lord Chancellor Hyde, i. 55
Samuel Johnson, ib. 295
Thomas Killigrew, ib. 194
Lachrymæ Mufarum, ib. 9
Sir John Lawfon, ib. 98
Andrew Marvel, ib. 46
General Monk, ib. 34

the Duke of Monmouth, ib. 210
Peter Motteux, ii. 232

the Earl of Mulgrave, i. 263

Titus Oates, ib. 247

the Duke of Ormond, ib. 258

Earl of Offory, ib. 259, 260

Mrs. Katherine Phillips, ii. 267
Sir Thomas Player, i. 290
the Earl of Rochester, ib. 193
Colonel Sackville, ib. 316
Sir William Scroggs, ib. 187
Carr Scrope, ib. 181
Elkanah Settle, ib. 297

Account of the Earl of Shaftesbury, i. 183, 217, 219, 221,

351, 365.

Mr. Sidney, ib. 191

Thomas Thynne, ib. 255

Sir William Waller, ib. 303, 304
John Wickliffe, ii. 24

the Marquis of Winchester, ib. 315
Zuinglius, ib. 26

Achitophel, vide Shaftesbury, Earl of

Acis, Polyphemus, and Galatea, from Ovid, iv. 27

Adriel, vide Mulgrave, Earl of

Æfacus transformed into a Cormorant, from Ovid, iii. 511
Agag, vide Godfrey, Sir E.

Age, golden, from Ovid, iii. 584

filver,

brazen,

iron,

ib. 385

ib. 386

ib. 386

Ajax and Ulyffes, fpeeches of, from Ovid, iv. 1

death of, ib. 24

Albemarle, Duke of, account of, i. 323

Albion and Albanius, prologue to, ii. 473

epilogue to, ib. 476

Albumazar, prologue to, ib. 494

Alexander's Feaft, or the Power of Mufic, an Ode, ib. 336

Remarks on, I. xcviii. II. 344

All for Love, epilogue to, ii. 424

Amaryllis, or third Idyllium of Theocritus, ib. 535
Amboyna, prologue to, ib. 405

epilogue to, ib. 407

Amiel, vide Seymour, Sir E.

Amri, vide Finch, Sir Heneage

Amyntas, paftoral elegy on the death of, ii. 297

Andronicus Livius, the founder of the Roman theatre, iv. 215.
Anecdote of Pope Benedict XIV. ii. 50

Vice-Admiral Berkeley, i. 110

Dryden, John, ib. xxvi.

the Earl of Dundee, ii. 270

Nathaniel Lee, ib. 436

Lewis XIV. i. 415

Lully, the mufician, ii. 340

Moliere, ib. 478

a cavalier phyfician, ib. 52
Racine, ib. 428