THE WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN, NOW FIRST COLLECTED _IN EIGHTEEN VOLUMES_. ILLUSTRATED WITH NOTES, HISTORICAL, CRITICAL, AND EXPLANATORY, AND A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, BY WALTER SCOTT, ESQ. VOL. XIV. LONDON: PRINTED FOR WILLIAM MILLER, ALBEMARLE STREET BY JAMES BALLANTYNE AND CO. EDINBURGH. 1808. CONTENTS OF VOLUME FOURTEENTH. PAGE. The Georgics, translated from Virgil 1 Dedication to the Earl of Chesterfield 3 An Essay on the Georgics, by Mr Addison 14 Book I. 27 Book II. 49 Book III. 73 Book IV. 98 Notes on Book IV. 123 Æneis 125 Dedication to the Marquis of Normanby, Earl of Mulgrave, &c. 127 Book I. 231 Notes on Book I. 262 Book II. 264 Book III. 296 Notes on Book III. 323 Book IV. 324 Note on Book IV. 353 Book V. 355 Book VI. 388 Notes on Book VI. 424 Book VII. 429 Notes on Book VII. 461 THE GEORGICS. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE PHILIP, EARL OF CHESTERFIELD, &c.[1] MY LORD, I cannot begin my address to your lordship better than in the words of Virgil: ----_Quod optanti divûm promittere nemo Auderet, volvenda dies, en, attulit ultro._