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Laici. 1683. Collector of Customs at the Port of London. 1684. Miscellanies, vol. i. Translates Maimbourg's History of League. 1685. Miscellanies, vol. ii. Albion and Albanius. Threnodia Augustalis. 1686. Ode on Memory of Mrs. Killegrew. 1687. Hind and the Panther. St. Cecilia Ode.
1674, Peace with the Dutch. 1675, Non-resistance Bill rejected. 1677, Marriage of William and Mary. 1678, Peace of Nymwegen. Popish plot. 1679, Habeas Corpus Act. Dissolution Cavalier Parliament. First Short Parliament. 1680, Second Short Parliament. 1681, Third Short Parliament. Tory Reaction. 1682, Flight of Shaftesbury. 1683, London City forfeits Charter. Rye House Plot. Russell and Sydney executed. 1685, Death of Charles II. Accession of James II. Prorogation of Parliament. Meeting of Parliament. Battle of Edgemore. Bloody Assizes. 1686, Judges allowed King's Dispensing Power. 1687, First Declaration of Indulgence.
English Literature.
1675, Mulgrave, Essay on Satire. 1676, Etheridge, The Man of Mode. 1677, Crowne, Destruction of Jerusalem. Behn, The Rover. Wycherley, Plain Dealer. 1678, Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress. Rymer, Tragedies of the Last Age. 1679, Oldham, Satires upon the Jesuits. 1680, Otway, The Orphan. 1681, Marvell, Poems. Roscommon, Essay on Translated Verse. 1682, Otway, Venice Preserved. 1687, Newton, Principia. Prior and Montague, Country Mouse and City Mouse.
1688, Britannia Rediviva. 1688, Second Declaration of Indulgence. Bishops sent to Tower. Birth of Prince of Wales. William and Mary invited to take English Throne. William lands at Torbay. James flees.
1689, Lost his offices and pensions. 1689, William and Mary crowned. Toleration Act. Bill of Rights. Grand Alliance. Jacobite Rebellion. 1689, Locke, Letters on Toleration, Treatise on Government.
1690, Don Sebastian. Amphitryon. 1690, Battle of the Boyne. 1690, Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
1691, King Arthur 1691, Treaty of Limerick. 1691, Langbane, Account of English Dramatic Poets. Rochester, Poems.
1692, Eleonora, Cleomines. 1692, Massacre of Glencoe. Churchill deprived of office. 1692, Dennis, The Impartial Critick.
1693, Miscellanies, vol. iii. Perseus and Juvenal. 1693, Beginning of National Debt. 1693, Congreve, Old Bachelor.
1694, Miscellanies, vol. iv. 1694, Bank of England established. Death of Queen Mary. 1694, Southern, The Fatal Marriage. Addison, Account of Greatest English Poets. Congreve, Double Dealer.
1695, Poems to Kneller and Congreve. Fresnoy's Art of Painting. 1695, Censorship of Press removed. 1695, Congreve, Love for Love. Blackmore, Prince Arthur.
1696, Life of Lucian. 1696, Trials for Treason Act. 1696, Southern, Oroonoko.
1697, Virgil, Alexander's Feast composed. 1697, Peace of Ryswick. 1697, Congreve, Mourning Bride. Vanbrugh, The Relapse.
1698, Partition Treaties. 1698, Swift begins Battle of Books. Farquhar, Love and a Bottle. Vanbrugh, Provoked Wife. Collier, Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage.
1700, Fables. Died May 1st. 1700, Severe Acts against Roman Catholics. 1700, Congreve, Way of the World. Prior, Carmen Seculare.
TO HER GRACE THE DUCHESS OF ORMOND,<br>
WITH THE FOLLOWING POEM OF PALAMON AND ARCITE.
MADAM,
The bard who first adorned our native tongue Tuned to his British lyre this ancient song; Which Homer might without a blush reherse, And leaves a doubtful palm in Virgil's verse: He matched their beauties, where they most excel; Of love sung better, and of-arms as well.
Vouchsafe, illustrious Ormond, to behold What power the charms of beauty had of old; Nor wonder if such deeds of arms were done, Inspired by two fair eyes that sparkled like your own.
If Chaucer by the best idea wrought, And poets can divine each other's thought, The fairest nymph before his eyes he set; And then the fairest was Plantagenet, Who three contending princes made her prize, And ruled the rival nations with her eyes; Who left immortal trophies of her fame, And to the noblest order gave the name.
Like her, of equal kindred to the throne, You keep her conquests, and extend your own:
As when the stars, in their etherial race, At length have rolled around the liquid space, At certain periods they resume their place, From the same point of heaven their course advance, And move in measures of their former dance; Thus, after length of ages, she returns, Restored in you, and the same place adorns: Or you perform her office in the sphere, Born of her blood, and make a new Platonic year.
O true Plantagenet, O race divine, (For beauty still is fatal to the line,) Had Chaucer lived that angel-face to view, Sure he had drawn his Emily from you; Or had you lived to judge the doubtful right, Your noble Palamon had been the knight; And conquering Theseus from his side had sent Your generous lord, to guide the Theban government.
Time shall accomplish that; and I shall see A Palamon in him, in you an Emily.