Personal appearance of Gilbert Burnet, x, 270 Perspective, when known in England, xi, 86 Petrarch, not the inventor of the story of Griselda, xi, 215 Persius, not equal as a satirist to Juvenal and Horace, xiii, 68 obscurity of, ib. 72 Causabon’s commentary on, ib. 72 character of, ib. 75 and Horace, comparison between, ib. 78 translations from, ib. 203-247 First Satire of, ib. 207 notes on, ib. 217 Second Satire of, xiii, 221 notes on, ib. 227 Third Satire of, ib. 230 notes on, ib. 239 Fourth Satire of, ib. 242 notes on, ib. 248 Fifth Satire of, ib. 251 notes on, ib. 262 Sixth Satire of, ib. 267 notes on, ib. 274 Personal satire, abuse of, ib. 281 licence in, xv, 218 Peterborough, Earl of, account of, xv, 189 Pharmaceutria, a pastoral, xiii, 407 Philips, Mrs Katherine, account of, xi, 111 Philosophy of Pythagoras, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, xii, 207 Phylacteries, what, x, 132 Physicians who attended Charles II. ib. 79 Pickering, Sir Gilbert, character of, i, 34 Dryden clerk to, ib. 36 Picture of the Duke of York at Guildhall defaced, vii, 51 Piety, the first quality of a hero, xiv, 161 Piles, Mons. de, preface of to the Art of Painting, xvii, 333 Pilgrim, a comedy, revived for Dryden’s benefit in 1700, i, 434, viii, 437 prologue written for, ib. 441 song written for, ib. 449 secular masque written for, ib. 455 epilogue written for, ib. 462 Pindar, Cowley’s translation of, xii, 15 Pindaric funeral poem, x, 53 Pilot’s prayer to Neptune, vii, 17 Pitcairn’s epitaph on Viscount Dundee, xi. 114 Pitt’s, William, extract from epistolary poem of, xviii, 218 Place, unity of, what, xv, 306 Plagiarism charged on Shadwell, x, 418 Plague in London in 1665, ix, 189 Play, first one among the Romans, xiii, 54 definition of a, xv, 302 of words, a particular taste in the age of James I. i, 10 Plays of Dryden, list of, with the respective dates of their being acted and published, i, 367 Heroic, an Essay on, iv, 16 English superior to French, xv, 349 rhyme unnatural in, ib. 363 serious, defence of rhyme in, ib. 367 effect of in the representation, ib. 393 rhyming or heroic, i, 69 heroic, character of, ib. 118 of Richard Flecknoe, x, 442 Player, Sir Thomas, account of, ix, 361 Players, rival companies of united, x, 393 Dryden’s contract with the King’s Company of, i, 102 Plot of the Papists, ix, 259 Grecian dramas, xv, 313 Roman dramas, ib. 314