Cromwell, Oliver, character of by Cowley, ix, 4 heroic stanzas to the memory of, ib. 8 Sprat’s verses to the memory of, ib. 5 dissolution of the Parliament by, ib. 45 conduct of to Scotland, ib. 19 storm at the death of, ib. 23 Shaftesbury’s situation during the usurpation of, ib. 445 death of, Dryden’s first theme, i, 38 Cruel doctrine of English lawyers, xv, 297 Cruelties of the Dutch to the English merchants, or Amboyna, a tragedy, v, 1 Curious combat, xi, 283 Custom at the birth of children, xiii, 389 Cymon and Iphigenia, xi, 454 remarks on, ib. 452 idea of borrowed from Theocritus, ib. 452 D. Dacier’s character of the Satires of Horace, vol. xiii, p. 77 Danby, Earl of, epistle dedicatory to, v, 296 account of, ib. 296 Daphnis and Chloris, from Theocritus, xii, 300 Daphnis, a pastoral, xiii, 391 Dartmouth, Earl of, account of, ix, 386 Davenant, Sir William, account of, iii, 97 share of, in the alteration of the Tempest, ib. 98 first introduced regular scenery on the English stage, x, 323 introduced moveable scenes on the stage, i, 79 a restorer of taste in poetry, i, 48 style of, imitated by Dryden, i, 59 Davenant, Dr Charles, account of, x, 333 Davies’s Dramatic Miscellanies, extract from, v, 172 Death of Lodislaus, king of Hungary, vii, 184 Charles II. titles of odes on, x, 55 concern of the people for, ib. 79 circumstances regarding, ib. 80 Oliver Cromwell, storm at, ix, 23 Dryden’s first theme, i, 38 Ajax, xii, 198 Death, scenes of, improper on the stage, xv, 332 Decameron of Boccacio, the tale of Sigismund and Guiscardo originally from, xi, 443 Theodore and Honoria from, ib. 448 Symon and Iphigenia from, ib. 473 Decker, character of, x, 451 Declaration of James II. concerning the church of England, ib. 262 for liberty of conscience, ib. 279 Decree of the University of Oxford, concerning non-resistance, ib. 241 Decrees of fate, Jupiter cannot alter, xv, 103 Decrepitude, premature, of the Earl of Shaftesbury, ix, 454