Fable of the Swallows, application of, x, 253 Cock and Fox, xi, 327 Flower and Leaf, or the Lady in the Arbour, ib. 356 remarks on, ib. 354 argument of, ib. 354 Fables, tales from Chaucer, xi, 193, 399 translations from Boccace, ib. 401, 480 Dedication of, ib. 195 Preface prefixed to, ib. 205 Dryden’s agreement with Jacob Tonson, concerning, xviii, 191 verses occasioned by reading, xviii, 227 Appendix to, containing the original tales of Chaucer, modernized by Dryden, xii, i-xci of Iphis and Ianthe, xii, 116 Pygmalion and the Statue, ib. 123 Cinyras and Myrrha, ib. 127 Ceyx and Alcyone, ib. 139 Fair Stranger, a song, xi, 163 Fairborne, Sir Palmes, epitaph on tomb of, xi, 155 account of the death of, xi, 156 Fairfax, Edward, translator of Tasso’s Jerusalem, xi, 207 Falkland, Anthony, Lord Viscount, account of, v, 307 Fall of Man, an opera, v, 89 False wit, one character of the poetry of Queen Elizabeth, i, 7 taste, prevalence of in the age of James I. ib. 9 Familiar epistle to Mr Julian, xv, 222 remarks on, ib. 218 Familiarity of Augustus with Virgil and Horace, xiii, 313 Farquhar’s ludicrous account of the Funeral of Dryden, i, 441 Fasts and thanksgivings, appointment of, belongs only to the king, ix, 388 Fate of Titus Oates, ib. 356 Fates, Jupiter cannot alter the decrees of the, xv, 103 Feigned Innocence, or Sir Martin Mar-all, a comedy, iii, 1 Female Prelate, and Lancashire Witches, account of, vii, 142 performers first introduced on the stage after the Restoration, x, 321 Ferrex and Perrex, a tragedy, mistake of Dryden concerning, ii, 118 Ferguson, Robert, account of, ix, 363 Fescennine and Saturnine verses, what, xiii, 51 Festival, St Cecilia’s, account of, xi, 166 Feversham, Earl of, account of, ix, 397 Finch, Sir Keneage, vide Nottingham, Earl of Fire of London, conduct of Charles II. on, ix, 187 its dreadful effects, ib. 189 First Miscellany, appearance of, i, 294 First poems of Dryden, i, 28 Fitzharris’s Plot, Waller’s Discovery of, ib. 382 Flail, account of Protestant, vii, 19 Flecknoe, Richard, account of, vi, 7, x, 441 Marvell’s description of, ib. 441 plays of, ib. 442 Fleet, English, names of changed, ix, 48 Flower and the Leaf, a fable, xi, 356 Floure and the Leafe, by Chaucer, xii, lxviii Fontenelle’s Reflections, defence of Virgil from, xiii, 345 Forbes, James, account of, ix, 368 Fourth Miscellany, appearance of, i, 382 Four days battle, account of, ib. 168, 174 Frampton, Mary, epitaph on monument of, xi, 158 France, Charles II. receives a pension from, ix, 385 France set the pattern of rhiming or heroic plays, i, 69 League in, and Covenant in England, parallel between, i, 281 Freethinkers, their opinions, x, 143 Free translation, Cowley’s mode of, xii, 15