THE WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN. 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. XVII. LONDON: PRINTED FOR WILLIAM MILLER, ALBEMARLE STREET, BY JAMES BALLANTYNE AND CO. EDINBURGH. 1808. CONTENTS OF VOLUME SEVENTEENTH. PAGE. The Life of Plutarch, 1 Dedication to the Duke of Ormond, &c. 5 Specimen of the Translation of the History of the League, 77 Dedication to the King, 81 The Author’s Advertisement to the Reader, 93 The History of the League, Book III. 101 Postscript to the History of the League, 150 Controversy between Dryden and Stillingfleet concerning the Duchess of York’s Paper, 185 Copy of a Paper written by the late Duchess of York, &c. 189 An Answer to the Duchess’s Paper by the Rev. Edward Stillingfleet, 194 A Defence of the Paper written by the Duchess of York, against the Answer made to it, 208 An Answer to the Defence of the Third Paper, 252 The Art of Painting, by C. A. Du Fresnoy, with Remarks, translated into English; with an original Preface, containing a Parallel between Painting and Poetry, 279 A Parallel of Poetry and Painting, 286 The Preface of M. de Piles, the French Translator, 333 THE LIFE OF PLUTARCH. THE LIFE OF PLUTARCH.