Charles II., restoration of, led the way for the revival of letters, i, 42 star visible at the birth of, ix, 51 panegyric on the coronation of, ib. 54 mechanical genius of, ib. 60 skill of, in maritime affairs, ib. 160 conduct of, at the fire of London, ib. 187 illegitimate children of, ib. 250 receives a pension from France, ib. 385 anecdote of, ib. 413 North’s opinion of Shaftesbury’s designs upon the person and authority of, ib. 450 titles of some odes on death of, x, 55 concern of the people for death of, ib. 79 Physicians who attended, ib. 79 circumstances regarding the death of, ib. 80 extract of papers found in strong box of, ib. 188, 190 Charleton, Dr Walter, account of, xi, 12 poetical epistle to, ib. 14 remarks on, ib. 12 Chaucer, Tales from, xi, 193-399 and Ovid, parallel between, ib. 214 Chaucer’s Pilgrims, Stothard’s painting of, ib. 217 Chaucer’s rhyme, supposed inequalities of, xi. 221 character of, xi, 225 and Boccace, parallel between, ib. 233 first patroness, ib. 246 original tales, modernized by Dryden, xii, i-xci Knightes Tale, ib. iii Nonnes Priestes Tale, ib. liii Floure and the Leafe, ib. lxviii Wif of Bathes Tale, ib. lxxxii Chesterfield, Earl of, account of, xiv, 3 dedication to, ib. 3 Chevalier de St George, birth of, x, 305 false report of the death of, ib. 307 Children, illegitimate, of Charles II., ix, 250 Christian religion, machinery of, more feeble than the Heathen, in poetry, xiii, 23 Church of England, declaration of James VI. concerning the, x, 262 loyalty of, ib. 154 tradition of no weight in, ib. 156 Tichmarsh, monument in, xviii, 215 Cibber’s character of Mrs Montfort, iv, 233 Cinyras and Myrrha, fable of, xii, 127 Circe, original prologue to, x, 333 prologue to, as corrected by Dryden, ib. 335 Circumstances which influenced the Earl of Shaftesbury in his change of politics, ix, 448 regarding the death of Charles II., x, 80 Civil wars, state of poetry in England before, i, 4 metaphysical poetry favoured till the beginning of, i, 12 interrupt the study of poetry, i, 20 Clare, Marquis of. Vide Haughton, Lord Clarendon, Earl of, character of, ix, 63 Clayton, Sir Robert, account of, ib. 359 Cleomenes, a tragedy, viii, 181 preface to, ib. 196 verses to Dryden on, ib. 205 representation of, suspended, i. 363, viii, 199 Life of, ib. 207 Prologue to, ib. 246 Epilogue to, ib. 329 character of, i, 362 Clergy, Dryden’s resentment against, ib. 428 Cleveland, account of, ib. 43 Clifford, Lord, epistle dedicatory to, v, 5 account of, ib. 5 Hugh, dedication to, xiii, 337 Matthew, Dryden’s controversy with, i, 154 Club, King’s Head, account of, ix, 380 Cock and the Fox, or the Tale of the Nun’s Priest, xi, 327 remarks on, ib. 326