Last period of the life of Dryden, i, 439 Settle, ib. 273 Lauderdale, Duke of, examination of Bishop Burnet concerning, x, 274 Earl of, character of, translation of Virgil by, xiv, 223 Laureat, a poem, x, 104 Dryden appointed to the office of, i, 115 Laws of the stage observed more exactly by the French than the English, xv, 336 Lawson, Sir John, account of, ix, 161 Lawyers, cruel doctrine of, xv, 297 Layman’s faith, or Religio Laici, an epistle, x, 1 League in France, and Covenant in England, parallel between, i, 281 specimen of translation of history of, xvii, 77 history of, author’s dedication to, ib. 89 Learning in England, on the accession of James I. i, 5 Lee, Nat. verses to Mr Dryden by, v. 103 share of in the tragedy of Œdipus, vi, 117 poetical epistle to on his tragedy of the Rival Queens, xi, 23 remarks on, ib. 22 account of the death of, ib. 22 Lee, Eleonora, vide Abingdon, Countess of Leeds, Duke of, vide Danby, Earl of Leicester, Earl of, epistle dedicatory to, vii, 283 account of, ib. 283 Leigh, Richard, Dryden’s controversy with, i, 157 Lely, Sir Peter, account of, xii, 267 Letter of Lady Elizabath Dryden to Dr Busby, xviii. 97 Mr John Dennis to Dryden, ib. 111 Jacob Tonson to Dryden, ib. 106 Samuel Pepys to Dryden, ib. 156 Charles Dryden to Corinna, i. 213 and verses of Milbourne to Jacob Tonson, viii, 5 and note on a passage in Creech’s Lucretius, xviii, 94 Letters of Dryden, xviii, 83 remarks on, ib. 85 to Madam Honor Dryden, xviii, 86 to the Earl of Rochester, ib. 89, 101 to the Reverend Dr Busby, ib. 96, 98 to Mr Jacob Tonson, ib. 103, 109, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124, 126, 127, 128, 130, 136, 137, 138 to Mr Dennis, ib. 114 to his sons at Rome, ib. 131 to Mrs Steward, ib. 141, 144, 146, 147, 149, 150, 153, 156, 157, 161, 169, 171, 174, 178, 180 to Elmes Steward, Esq. xviii, 143 to Samuel Pepys, Esq. ib. 154 to the Right Hon. Charles Montague, ib. 159 to Mrs Elizabath Thomas, junior, ib. 164, 167, 173 Leveson Gower, Sir William, account of, viii, 7 epistle dedicatory to, ib. 7 Libels against Dryden, occasioned by the publication of the Hind and Panther, x, 104 Liberty of conscience, declaration for, x, 279 Licence in personal satire, xv, 218