CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE DRYDEN'S LIFE. 1631. Dryden born, August 9th. CONTEMPORARY LITERARY AND 1631. Donne and Drayton died. 1634. Milton's Comus acted. 1637. Ben Jonson and Dekker died. 1642. Opening of the civil war between Charles I. and Parliament. Newton born. 1644. Milton's Areopagitica. 1649. Execution of Charles I. 1650. Entered Trinity College, Cambridge. 1650. Baxter's Saints' Everlasting Rest. Jeremy Taylor's Holy Living. 1653. Walton's The Complete Angler. The Protectorate under Cromwell instituted. 1658. Heroic Stanzas on Oliver Cromwell. 1658. Cromwell died. 1660. Astræa Redux. 1660. Restoration of Charles II. Pepys's 1663. The Wild Gallant, and The Rival 1663. Diary begun. 1661. Defoe born. Butler's Hudibras (Part i.). Ladies. Dryden married, Decem- 1664. The Indian Queen. 1664. Hudibras (Part ii.). Naval war with 1665. The Indian Emperor (published 1665. The Plague Year in London. 1667). 1666. 1667. Annus Mirabilis. Secret Love, or 1667. The Great Fire of London. Victories over the Dutch. Shirley, last of the Elizabethan dramatists, Paradise Lost. Cowley and Jeremy 1668. An Evening's Love, or the Mock 1668. Davenant died. Astrologer. Ladies à la Mode. 1669. Tyrannic Love, or the Royal Martyr. 1669. End of Pepys's Diary. 1671. Milton's Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. Buckingham's The Rehearsal. 1672. Marriage à la Mode. The Assigna- 1672. Steele born. Addison born. tion, or Love in a Nunnery. 1673. Amboyna. 1674. The State of Innocence. 1675. Aurungzebe, or the Great Mogul. 1674. Milton died. 1678. All for Love, or the World Well 1678. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (Parti.). CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.- Concluded DRYDEN'S LIFE. 1679. Troilus and Cressida. attack on Dryden. Rochester's CONTEMPORARY LITERARY AND POLITICAL HISTORY. 1681. The Spanish Friar. Absalom and 1681. Indictment of Shaftesbury. Achitophel. 1682. The Medal. MacFlecknoe. Absa lom and Achitophel (Part ii.). Religio Laici, or a Layman's Faith. The Duke of Guise (with Lee). 1684. Poetical Miscellanies (Part i.). 1684. Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (Part ii.). 1685. Poetical Miscellanies (Part ii.). Al-1685. Death of Charles II. Accession of James II. Insurrection of Monmouth. 1688. James II. deposed. Accession of William III. Bunyan died. Alexander Pope born. 1689. Richardson born. Shadwell made Poet-laureate. 1698. Collier's A Short View of the Im morality and Profaneness of the English Stage. 1699. Addison's Latin Poems. 1700. Fables. Dryden died, May 1st. PALAMON AND ARCITE OR THE KNIGHT'S TALE BOOK I IN days of old there lived, of mighty fame, Of Athens he was lord; much land he won, I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array, Betwixt the hardy queen and hero knight; The town besieged, and how much blood it cost 10 20 7. Warrior queen, Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons. 19. The town besieged. Uniformity of construction would require "the siege of the town," or "how the town was besiegel." |