Excerpt from The Works of John Dryden, Vol. 18 of 18: Illustrated With Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author To begin with Dryden's dreadful name, Should mark out something of no common fame. I cannot omit remarking, that the Dialogue concludes with n profuse panegyric, upon a theme not very congenial to Dryden's political feelings, the character of Queen Mary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.