Lycidas and Mæris, a pastoral, xiii, 413 Lyrical Pieces, Odes, Songs, xi, 63 M. Macareus, epistle to, xii, 21 Mac-Flecknoe, a satire against Thomas Shadwell, x, 425 remarks on, ib. 427 character of, i, 266 one of the keenest satires in the English language, ib. 429 its object misconstrued by Dryden’s editors, ib. 432 notes on, ib. 441 Machinery of the Christian religion more feeble than that of the Heathen, in poetry, xiii, 23 Guardian Angels, ib. 26 the Æneis, xiv, 193 in the Lancashire Witches, x, 382 Mackenzie, Sir George, account of, xiii, 111 Mæcenas, character of, xiii, 307 Maiden Queen, or Secret Love, a comedy, ii, 379 lady, epitaph on, xi, 158 Maimbourg, Lewis, account of, xvii, 182 history of Calvinism of, x, 30 Malacca, account of, xvi, 150 defeat of the Mahometans at, ib. 211 Malone’s account of the Whip and Key, ix, 425 History of the English Stage, extract from, xi, 58 Man of Mode, character of, x, 339 Epilogue to, ib. 339 Mar-all, Sir Martin, a comedy, iii, 1 Maritime affairs, skill of Charles II. in, ix, 160 Mar-prelate, Martin, account of, x, 27 Marriage of Dryden, i, 88 Marriage A-la-mode, a comedy, iv, 231 remarks on, ib. 233 epistle dedicatory to, ib. 235 prologue to, ib. 241 epilogue to, ib. 342 character of, i, 143 Marquis of Clare, vide Haughton, Lord Halifax, account of, viii, 113, ix, 305 epistle dedicatory to, viii, 113 Worcester, vide Beaufort, Duke of Winchester, epitaph on, xi, 154 account of, ib. 152 Normanby, dedication to, xiv, 127 vide Buckingham, Duke of Marvel’s Growth of Popery, ix, 420 description of Richard Flecknoe, x, 441 Massacre of Pans, transposed for the Duke of Guise, vii, 188 Amboyna, character of, i, 164 Mason, Mr, poetical epistle of, xvii, 284 Master of Arts, Dryden’s degree of, xviii, 185 Masque of Calisto, dramatis personæ of, x, 337 Meal-tub Plot, Waller’s discovery of, ix, 382 Measures of the human body, xvii, 424 Mechanical genius of Charles II. ix. 60 The Medal, or a satire against Sedition, ix, 407 remarks on, ib. 409 publications in opposition to, ib. 415 character of, i, 250 reply to, i, 255 Medal, Bower’s, of the Earl of Shaftesbury, ix, 412 Meleager and Atalante, xii, 96 Melibæus, a pastoral, xiii, 402 Memorial of Dryden to the Earl of Rochester, i,296 Metamorphoses, Ovid’s, translations from, xii, 43-227 Book I. ib. 63 the Golden Age, ib. 66 the Silver Age, ib. 67 the Brazen Age, ib. 68 the Iron Age, ib. 68 Giants’ War, ib. 69 of Daphne into a laurel, xii, 81 Io into an heifer, ib. 85 the eyes of Argus into a peacock’s train, ib. 90 Syrinx into reeds, ib, 91 of Æacus into a cormorant, xii, 154 Metamorphoses, Book XII. ib. 156 Metaphrase translation, what, ib. 11