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T H E WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN

General Editor

H. T. SWEDENBERG, JR.

Associate General Editor

EARL MINER

Textual Editor

VINTON A. DEARING

Associate Textual Editor

GEORGE R. GUFFEY
 VOLUME TWO
EDITOR

H. T. Swedenberg, Jr.

TEXTUAL EDITOR

Vinton A. Dearing
 JOHN DRYDEN
F R O M A PAINTING AFTER KNELLER IN THE
WILLIAM ANDREWS C L A R K MEMORIAL LIBRARY
 VOLUME II

The Works
of John Dryden

Poems 1681-1684

University of California Press

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1972
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Elizabeth and Anne

They listened patiently
Preface

By 1681 Dryden had long since established himself as a literary

man of importance. He had written occasional poems, the most
substantial if not the best being Annus Mirabilis. He had dem-
onstrated his acuity as a critic, usually, again, in occasional
pieces; he had briefly turned translator; and above all he had
busied himself in the art of the theater. The Spanish Fryar,
acted in March 1680 and printed in 1681, was the nineteenth
play that Dryden had written or collaborated in writing—an
impressive record of productivity. Indeed, if the King's poet
laureate had died at the beginning of 1681, literary history
would have recorded his accomplishment primarily in terms of
his plays.
The remarkably fecund years of 1681 and 1682 forever in-
validated such a critical evaluation of Dryden. He still towers
above his fellows in the magnitude of his dramatic work, but
the four poems by which he is best known were all published
during those years of wonder, 1681-1682. Absalom and Achito-
phel appeared in November 1681; The Medall in March 1682;
Mac Flecknoe in October 1682; and Religio Laici in November
of the same year. Besides, during the same period Dryden man-
aged to contribute to The Second Part of Absalom and
Achitophel, to write fifteen occasional prologues and epilogues,
and to see on to the stage a play, The Duke of Guise. The
record is the more astonishing when Dryden's age is taken into
account; when Absalom and Achitophel was printed, he had
already passed his fiftieth birthday. The "energy divine" that
distinguishes his best verse must have been vouchsafed to him
physically as well as mentally during this time. He was ever a
political animal, and it is not beyond conjecture that the tur-
moil of the exclusion controversy and of the Popish Plot stimu-
lated him to stretch his talents to the utmost. To have written
Absalom and Achitophel was sufficient achievement to make
most poets rest content; to have done all the rest as well was
the accomplishment of an extraordinary man of extraordinary
powers.
Editing the major poems in this volume has been a daunting
viii Preface

experience. For example, almost every line in Mac Flecknoe

presents a problem, not to mention the questions of the date
of composition, the occasion that produced the poem, and the
relationship between Shadwell and Dryden. Absalom and Achi-
tophel offers different challenges and a multiplicity of them,
historical, biographical, and literary. I regret to say, but I freely
admit, that I have not been able to solve all the problems.
For example, I have not identified Aston Hall; nor do I know
with certitude what Dryden had in mind when he referred to
Amnon's murder. These and other cruxes I pass on to future
scholars harrowing this field. I have also been faced with many a
vexing decision about the extent of the commentary. I have
tried to exercise judicious restraint, but I dare say that no one
will ever wish the remarks on Absalom and Achitophel more
extended than they are. No doubt many will wish that I had
compressed them in some places and that I had dealt with
certain matters over which I have passed silently. I can only
say that I wish I might have pleased all parties.
Two of my late colleagues collected materials toward a com-
mentary on parts of this volume. Professor Edward Niles
Hooker was especially concerned with Religio Laici, as his
last article, published posthumously, indicated. I have read
the primary documents he consulted and have concluded, re-
luctantly, that I could not follow the direction his interpreta-
tion of the poem was taking. He also wrote a draft statement
about the verse of Mac Flecknoe, and I have used part of it in
the headnote to the poem. Professor John Harrington Smith
left a commentary on the prologues and epilogues, and I have
followed his lead, but the form of the materials as they now ap-
pear is largely mine. I hope that he would have approved. Fi-
nally, I am pleased to state that the Associate General Editor,
Professor Earl Miner, furnished data for the commentary on
Dryden's contributions to Miscellany Poems and for that on
T o the Earl of Roscomon and T o T h e Memory of Mr. Oldham.

I am pleased to acknowledge my indebtedness to several per-

sons for aid extended to the California edition of Dryden and
 Preface ix

to me as the editor of this volume. The following graduate

students and staff have worked faithfully as research assistants:
Michael Seidel, David Latt, Melanie Rangno, Diane Eliel,
Larry Behrens, Janette Lewis, Judith Mansager, Nancy Na-
kano, Nick Havranek, Mildred R. Jordan, and Jeanette Wallin.
Dr. Louis B. Wright and the trustees of the Folger Library
awarded me a fellowship at that institution for a year, during
which time I did much of the research for the commentary.
Former Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy and Chancellor
Charles E. Young of UCLA, upon the nomination of Director
Robert Vosper and the Clark Library Committee, appointed
me Clark Library Professor for the academic years 1969-1971
and thus made it possible for me to complete the writing of
the commentary. The Textual Editor completed much of his
work on this volume with the help of grants from the American
Philosophical Society and the Folger Shakespeare Library. Pro-
fessor Franklin P. Rolfe, Emeritus Dean of the College of Let-
ters and Science, Professor Kenneth N. Trueblood, now Dean
of the College, and Professor Philip Levine, Dean of Humani-
ties, UCLA, have generously supported the continuing work
on the edition, as has the Research Committee of the Academic
Senate. The staff of the Clark Library have cheerfully served
me for a long time, and never more effectively than in the past
two years. Mrs. Grace H. Stimson, of the University of Cali-
fornia Press, has given her expert attention to the editing of
this volume. Finally, in a virtuoso performance, Mrs. Geneva
Phillips, editorial assistant of the edition, has handled the
seemingly endless detail attendant upon the production of this
book.

The Clark Library H. T . S„ Jr.

June 1971
 Contents

Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem g

The Medall. A Satyre against Sedition 38
Mac Flecknoe -.
54
The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem 62
Religio Laid or A Laymans Faith. A Poem g8
The Art of Poetry, Written in French by the Sieur de Boileau,
Made English 12^
Contributions to Miscellany Poems
Ovid's Elegies, Book II. Elegy the Nineteenth 158
Amaryllis, or the Third IdyIlium of Theocritus, Para-
phras'd x6o
The Tears of Amynta, for the Death of Damon. Song 164
Virgil's Eclogues
The Fourth Eclogue. Pollio 165
The Ninth Eclogue 167
To the Earl of Roscomon, on his Excellent Essay on Trans-
lated Verse
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
Prologues and Epilogues 1681-1684
Epilogue to Tamerlane the Great x^g
The Epilogue Spoken to the King at the opening the
Play-House at Oxford on Saturday last. Being March
the Nineteenth 1681 180
Prologue and Epilogue to The Unhappy Favourite 181
Prologue to the University of Oxford, 1681 183
Prologue and Epilogue to Mithridates 185
Prologue and Epilogue to The Princess of Cleves 188
Prologue and Epilogue to The Loyal Brother igo
Prologue to His Royal Highness, upon His first appearance
at the Duke's Theatre since his Return from Scotland igg
Prologue to the Dutchess, on Her Return from Scotland 195
Prologue and Epilogue to the King and Queen ig6
A True Coppy of the Epilogue to Constantine the Great 199
Prologue to a New Play, Call'd, The Disappointment: or,
The Mother in Fashion 201
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Commentary 205
Textual Notes 407
Appendixes
A. Commendatory Poems to Absalom and Achitophel 46g
B. Commendatory Poems to The Medall 472
C. Commendatory Poems to Religio Laici 475
Index to the Commentary 479
Illustrations

John Dryden, from a painting after Kneller Frontispiece

TITLE PAGE OF Absalom and Achitophel 2
The Duke of Monmouth, the Earl of Shaftesbury, the Duke of
Buckingham, and Titus Oates Following page 24
TITLE PAGE OF The Medall 37

The medal struck for Shaftesbury Facing page 43

TITLE PAGE OF Mac Flecknoe 53

TITLE PAGE OF The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel 61

TITLE PAGE OF Religio Laici 97
TITLE PAGE OF The Art of Poetry 123

TITLE PAGE OF Miscellany Poems 157

The pope-burning ceremony (1680) Facing page 190
POEMS 1681-1684
ABSALOM
A N D

ACHITOPHEL.

P O E M .

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 Absalom and Achitophel 3

Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem

TO THE READER.

T
is not my intention to make an Apology for my Poem:
Some will think it needs no Excuse; and others will re-
ceive none. The Design, I am sure, is honest: but he who
draws his Pen for one Party, must expect to make Enemies of the
other. For, Wit and Fool, are Consequents of Whig and Tory:
And every man is a Knave or an Ass to the contrary side. There's
a Treasury of Merits in the Phanatick Church, as well as in the
Papist; and a Pennyworth to be had of Saintship, Honesty, and
Poetry, for the Leud, the Factious, and the Blockheads: But
the longest Chapter in Deuteronomy, has not Curses enow
for an ^niz-Bromingham. My Comfort is, their manifest Preju-
dice to my Cause, will render their Judgment of less Authority
against me. Yet if a Poem have a Genius, it will force its own
reception in the World. For there's a sweetness in good Verse,
which Tickles even while it Hurts: And, no man can be heart-
ily angry with him, who pleases him against his will. The Com-
mendation of Adversaries, is the greatest Triumph of a Writer;
because it never comes unless Extorted. But I can be satisfied
on more easy termes: If I happen to please the more Moderate
sort, I shall be sure of an honest Party; and, in all probability,
of the best Judges; for, the least Concern'd, are commonly the
least Corrupt: And, I confess, I have laid in for those, by re-
bating the Satyre, (where Justice woud allow it) from carrying
too sharp an Edge. They, who can Criticize so weakly, as to
imagine I have done my Worst, may be Convinced, at their own
Cost, that I can write Severely, with more ease, than I can
Gently. I have but laught at some mens Follies, when I coud
have declaim'd against their Vices; and, other mens Vertues I
have commended, as freely as I have tax'd their Crimes. And
now, if you are a Malitious Reader, / expect you should return
4 Poems 1681-1684

upon me, that I affect to be thought more Impartial than I

am. But, if men are not to be judgd by their Professions, God
forgive you Common-wealths-men, for professing so plausibly
for the Government. You cannot be so Unconscionable, as to
charge me for not Subscribing of my Name; for that woud
reflect too grosly upon your own Party, who never dare, though
they have the advantage of a Jury to secure them. If you like
not my Poem, the fault may, possibly, be in my Writing:
(though 'tis hard for an Authour to judge against himself;) But,
more probably, 'tis in your Morals, which cannot bear the truth
of it. The Violent, on both sides, will condemn the Character
of Absalom, as either too favourably, or too hardly drawn. But,
they are not the Violent, whom I desire to please. The fault,
on the right hand, is to Extenuate, Palliate and Indulge; and,
to confess freely, I have endeavour'd to commit it. Besides the
respect which I owe his Birth, I have a greater for his Heroique
Vertues; and, David himself, coud not be more tender of the
Young-man's Life, than I woud be of his Reputation. But,
since the most excellent Natures are always the most easy; and,
as being such, are the soonest perverted by ill Counsels, es-
pecially when baited with Fame and Glory; 'tis no more a
wonder that he withstood not the temptations of Achitophel,
than it was for Adam, not to have resisted the two Devils; the
Serpent, and the Woman. The conclusion of the Story, I pur-
posely forbore to prosecute; because, I coud not obtain from
my self, to shew Absalom Unfortunate. The Frame of it, was
cut out, but for a Picture to the Wast; and, if the Draught be
so far true, 'tis as much as I design'd.
Were I the Inventour, who am only the Historian, I shoud
certainly conclude the Piece, with the Reconcilement of Ab-
salom to David. And, who knows but this may come to pass?
Things were not brought to an Extremity where I left the
Story: There seems, yet, to be room left for a Composure; here-
after, there may only be for pity. I have not, so much as an un-
charitable Wish against Achitophel; but, am content to be Ac-
cus'd of a good natur'd Errour; and, to hope with Origen, that
 Absalom and Achitophel 5
the Devil himself may, at last, be sav'd: For which reason, in this
Poem, he is neither brought to set his House in order, nor to
dispose of his Person afterwards, as he in Wisedom shall think
fit. God is infinitely merciful; and his Vicegerent is only not so,
because he is not Infinite.
The true end of Satyre, is the amendment of Vices by cor-
rection. And he who writes Honestly, is no more an Enemy
to the Offendour, than the Physician to the Patient, when he
prescribes harsh Remedies to an inveterate Disease: for those,
are only in order to prevent the Chyrurgeon's work of an Ense
rescindendum, which I wish not to my very Enemies. To con-
clude all, If the Body Politique have any Analogy to the Nat-
ural, in my weak judgment, an Act of Oblivion were as nec-
essary in a Hot, Distemper'd State, as an Opiate woud be in
a Raging Fever.

Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem

I
n pious times, e'r Priest-craft did begin,
Before Polygamy was made a sin;
When man, on many, multiply'd his kind,
E'r one to one was, cursedly, confind:
When Nature prompted, and no law deny'd
Promiscuous use of Concubine and Bride;
Then, Israel's Monarch, after Heaven's own heart,
His vigorous warmth did, variously, impart
T o Wives and Slaves: And, wide as his Command,
Scatter'd his Maker's Image through the Land.
Michal, of Royal blood, the Crown did wear,
A Soyl ungratefull to the Tiller's care:
i sav'd:\.— F 1 - 3 , Qi-6, Q8-9, O1-2.
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Not so the rest; for several Mothers bore

T o Godlike David, several Sons before.
But since like slaves his bed they did ascend,
N o T r u e Succession could their seed attend.
Of all this Numerous Progeny was none
So Beautifull, so brave as Absolon:
Whether, inspir'd by some diviner Lust,
His Father got him with a greater Gust;
Or that his Conscious destiny made way
By manly beauty to Imperiall sway.
Early in Foreign fields he won Renown,
With Kings and States ally'd to Israel's Crown:
In Peace the thoughts of War he coud remove,
And seem'd as he were only born for love.
What e'r he did was done with so much ease,
In him alone, 'twas Natural to please.
His motions all accompanied with grace;
And Paradise was open'd in his face.
With secret Joy, indulgent David view'd
His Youthfull Image in his Son renew'd:
T o all his wishes Nothing he deny'd,
And made the Charming Annabel his Bride.
What faults he had (for who from faults is free?)
His Father coud not, or he woud not see.
Some warm excesses, which the Law forbore,
Were constru'd Youth that purg'd by boyling o'r:
And Amnon's Murther, by a specious Name,
Was call'd a Just Revenge for injur'd Fame.
T h u s Prais'd, and Lov'd, the Noble Youth remain'd,
While David, undisturb'd, in Sion raign'd.
But Life can never be sincerely blest:
Heaven punishes the bad, and proves the best.
T h e Jews, a Headstrong, Moody, Murmuring race,
As ever try'd th' extent and stretch of grace;

18 Beautifull,] F2, Q4, F3, Q7, O1-2, Qg, M; ~ A F i , Q1-3, Q5-6, Q8.
19 by] Q i - 2 , Q s (uncorrected state), F3, Q6-9, O1-2; with Fi-2, Q3 (corrected
state), Q4-5, M.
 Absalom and Achitophel 7
God's pamper'd people whom, debauch'd with ease,
No King could govern, nor no God could please;
(Gods they had tri'd of every shape and size
That God-smiths could produce, or Priests devise:)
These A dam-wits, too fortunately free,
Began to dream they wanted libertie;
And when no rule, no president was found
Of men, by Laws less circumscrib'd and bound,
They led their wild desires to Woods and Caves,
And thought that all but Savages were Slaves.
They who when Saul was dead, without a blow,
Made foolish Ishbosheth the Crown forgo;
Who banisht David did from Hebron bring,
And, with a Generall Shout, proclaim'd him King:
Those very J ewes, who, at their very best,
Their Humour more than Loyalty exprest,
Now, wondred why, so long, they had obey'd
An Idoll Monarch which their hands had made:
Thought they might ruine him they could create;
Or melt him to that Golden Calf, a State.
But these were randome bolts: No form'd Design,
Nor Interest made the Factious Croud to joyn:
The sober part of Israel, free from stain,
Well knew the value of a peacefull raign:
And, looking backward with a wise afright,
Saw Seames of wounds, dishonest to the sight;
In contemplation of whose ugly Scars,
They Curst the memory of Civil Wars.
The moderate sort of Men, thus qualifi'd,
Inclin'd the Ballance to the better side:
And David's mildness manag'd it so well,
The Bad found no occasion to Rebell.
But, when to Sin our byast Nature leans,
The carefull Devil is still at hand with means;

50 devise:] Q1-4, F3, Q7~g, Oi-a; — F 1 - 2 , Q5, M; Q6.

58 Ishbosheth] Q1-4, F3, Q7-9, O1-2; Isbosheth F 1 - 2 , Q5-6, M.
64 made:] Q1-4, F 3 , Q7, O1-2, Qg; F 1 - 2 , Q 5 , M; Q6; ~ A Q8.
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A n d p r o v i d e n t l y P i m p s f o r ill desires:
T h e Good old Cause reviv'd, a Plot requires.
P l o t s , t r u e o r false, a r e n e c e s s a r y t h i n g s ,
T o raise u p C o m m o n - w e a l t h s , a n d r u i n Kings.

T h ' inhabitants of old Jerusalem

W e r e Jebusites: t h e T o w n so c a l l ' d f r o m t h e m ;
A n d their's the Native right
B u t w h e n the chosen people grew m o r e strong,
T h e rightfull cause at length became the wrong:
90 A n d e v e r y loss t h e m e n of Jebus bore,
T h e y still w e r e t h o u g h t G o d ' s e n e m i e s t h e m o r e .
T h u s , w o r n a n d w e a k e n ' d , w e l l o r ill c o n t e n t ,
S u b m i t t h e y m u s t t o David's Government:
I m p o v e r i s h t , a n d d e p r i v ' d of a l l C o m m a n d ,
T h e i r T a x e s d o u b l e d as t h e y l o s t t h e i r L a n d ,
A n d , w h a t w a s h a r d e r y e t t o flesh a n d b l o o d ,
T h e i r Gods disgrac'd, a n d b u r n t like c o m m o n wood.
T h i s set t h e H e a t h e n P r i e s t h o o d i n a flame;
F o r P r i e s t s of a l l R e l i g i o n s a r e t h e s a m e :
100 O f w h a t s o e ' r d e s c e n t t h e i r G o d h e a d b e ,
Stock, Stone, o r o t h e r h o m e l y p e d i g r e e ,
I n h i s d e f e n c e h i s S e r v a n t s a r e as b o l d
A s if h e h a d b e e n b o r n of b e a t e n g o l d .
T h e Jewish Rabbins tho their Enemies,
I n this c o n c l u d e t h e m h o n e s t m e n a n d wise:
F o r 'twas their d u t y , all the L e a r n e d t h i n k ,
T ' espouse his Cause by w h o m they eat a n d d r i n k .
F r o m hence began that Plot, the Nation's Curse,
B a d i n i t self, b u t r e p r e s e n t e d w o r s e :
110 R a i s ' d i n e x t r e m e s , a n d i n e x t r e m e s d e c r y ' d ;
W i t h Oaths affirm'd, with dying Vows deny'd:
N o t weigh'd, or w i n n o w ' d by the M u l t i t u d e ;
B u t swallow'd in t h e Mass, u n c h e w ' d a n d C r u d e .
S o m e T r u t h t h e r e was, b u t d a s h ' d a n d b r e w ' d w i t h L y e s ;
109 worse:] F 1 - 3 , Q1-9, O1-2, M. 111 deny'd:] F i - g , Q1-9, O1-2, M.
 Absalom and Achitophel 9
T o please the Fools, and puzzle all the Wise.
Succeeding times did equal folly call,
Believing nothing, or believing all.
Th' Egyptian Rites the Jebusites imbrac'd;
Where Gods were recommended by their Tast.
120 Such savory Deities must needs be good,
As serv'd at once for Worship and for Food.
By force they could not Introduce these Gods;
For Ten to One, in former days was odds.
So Fraud was us'd, (the Sacrificers trade,)
Fools are more hard to Conquer than Perswade.
Their busie Teachers mingled with the Jews;
And rak'd, for Converts, even the Court and Stews:
Which Hebrew Priests the more unkindly took,
Because the Fleece accompanies the Flock.
130 Some thought they God's Anointed meant to Slay
By Guns, invented since full many a day:
Our Authour swears it not; but who can know
How far the Devil and Jebusites may go?
This Plot, which fail'd for want of common Sense,
Had yet a deep and dangerous Consequence:
For, as when raging Fevers boyl the Blood,
The standing Lake soon floats into a Flood;
And every hostile Humour, which before
Slept quiet in its Channels, bubbles o'r:
140 So, several Factions from this first Ferment,
Work up to Foam, and threat the Government.
Some by their Friends, more by themselves thought wise,
Oppos'd the Power, to which they could not rise.
Some had in Courts been Great, and thrown from thence,
Like Feinds, were harden'd in Impenitence.
Some, by their Monarch's fatall mercy grown,
From Pardon'd Rebels, Kinsmen to the Throne;

117 all.] F2-3, Q1-4, Q7-9, O1-2, M; — F i , Q5-6.

121 As] F2-3, Q1-4, Q6-9, O1-2, M; And F i , Q5.
146 Some, . . . fatall] some copies of Fi read SomeA . . . fatal.
 10 Poems 1681—1684

Were rais'd in Power and publick Office high:

Strong Bands, if Bands ungratefull men could tye.
1B0 Of these the false Achitophel was first:
A Name to all succeeding Ages Curst:
For close Designs, and crooked Counsells fit;
Sagacious, Bold, and Turbulent of wit:
Restless, unfixt in Principles and Place;
In Power unpleas'd, impatient of Disgrace:
A fiery Soul, which working out its way, 1
Fretted the Pigmy Body to decay: I
And o'r inform'd the Tenement of Clay. I
A daring Pilot in extremity;
160 Pleas'd with the Danger, when the Waves went high
He sought the Storms; but for a Calm unfit,
Would Steer too nigh the Sands, to boast his Wit.
Great Wits are sure to Madness near ally'd;
And thin Partitions do their Bounds divide:
Else, why should he, with Wealth and Honour blest,
Refuse his Age the needful hours of Rest?
Punish a Body which he coud not please;
Bankrupt of Life, yet Prodigal of Ease?
And all to leave, what with his T o y l he won,
170 T o that unfeather'd, two Leg'd thing, a Son:
Got, while his Soul did hudled Notions try;
And born a shapeless Lump, like Anarchy.
In Friendship False, Implacable in Hate:
Resolv'd to Ruine or to Rule the State.
T o Compass this the Triple Bond he broke;"
T h e Pillars of the publick Safety shook:
And fitted Israel for a Foreign Yoke.
Then, seiz'd with Fear, yet still affecting Fame,

149 could] some copies of Fi read cuold.

151 Curst:] — F1-3, Qi-g, O1-2, M.
152 Counsells] Q1-4, F j , Q7-9, O1-2; Counsell F1-2, Q5-6, M.
153 Bold] some copies of Fx read Kold.
154 Principles] Q1-4, F3, Q7-9, O1-2; Principle Fi-2, Q5-6, M.
155 Disgrace:] F1-3, Q i - g , O1-2, M.
157 Body] some copies of Fi read Kody.
 Absalom and Achitophel

Usurp'd a Patriott's All-attoning Name.

180 So easie still it proves in F a c t i o u s T i m e s ,
W i t h publick Zeal t o c a n c e l private C r i m e s :
H o w safe is T r e a s o n , a n d h o w sacred ill,
W h e r e n o n e c a n sin against the Peoples W i l l :
W h e r e C r o u d s c a n w i n k ; a n d n o offence b e k n o w n ,
Since in a n o t h e r s guilt they find their own.
Y e t , F a m e deserv'd, n o E n e m y c a n g r u d g e ;
T h e S t a t e s m a n we a b h o r , b u t praise the J u d g e .
I n Israels C o u r t s n e ' r sat an Abbethdin
W i t h m o r e discerning Eyes, o r H a n d s m o r e c l e a n :
190 U n b r i b ' d , u n s o u g h t , the W r e t c h e d to redress;
Swift of Dispatch, a n d easie of Access.
O h , h a d h e been c o n t e n t t o serve t h e C r o w n ,
W i t h vertues only p r o p e r to the G o w n ;
O r , h a d the rankness of the Soyl been freed
F r o m Cockle, that o p p r e s t the N o b l e seed:
David, for h i m his t u n e f u l l H a r p h a d strung,
A n d H e a v e n h a d w a n t e d o n e I m m o r t a l song.
B u t wilde A m b i t i o n loves t o slide, n o t stand;
A n d F o r t u n e s I c e prefers t o V e r t u e s L a n d :
200 Achitophel, g r o w n weary t o possess
A lawfull F a m e , a n d lazy H a p p i n e s s ;
D i s d a i n ' d the G o l d e n f r u i t t o g a t h e r free,
A n d lent t h e C r o u d his A r m t o shake t h e T r e e .
N o w , m a n i f e s t of Crimes, c o n t r i v ' d l o n g since,
H e stood at b o l d Defiance with his P r i n c e :
H e l d u p the B u c k l e r of the Peoples Cause,
A g a i n s t t h e C r o w n ; a n d sculk'd b e h i n d t h e L a w s .
T h e wish'd occasion of t h e P l o t h e takes,
S o m e C i r c u m s t a n c e s finds, b u t m o r e he m a k e s ;
210 B y buzzing Emissaries, fills t h e ears
O f listning Crowds, with Jealosies a n d F e a r s

179 Usurp'd] Q1-4, F3, Q6, Q8-9, Ot-2; Assum'd F1-2, Q5, M; Usur'd Q7.
179 Patriott's] Fi (some copies), F2-3, Qi~4, Q6-9, O1-2, M; Patron's Fi (some
copies), Q5.
180-191 omitted from F1-2, Qj, M. 209 makes;] F1-3, Qi-g, O1-2, M.
 12 Poems 1681-1684

Of Arbitrary Counsels brought to light,

And proves the King himself a Jebusite:
Weak Arguments! which yet he knew ful well,
Were strong with People easie to Rebell.
For, govern'd by the Moon, the giddy Jews
Tread the same track when she the Prime renews:
And once in twenty Years, their Scribes Record,
By natural Instinct they change their Lord.
220 Achitophel still wants a Chief, and none
Was found so fit as Warlike Absolon:
Not, that he wish'd his Greatness to create,
(For Polititians neither love nor hate:)
But, for he knew, his Title not allow'd,
Would keep him still depending on the Crowd:
That Kingly power, thus ebbing out, might be
Drawn to the dregs of a Democracy.
Him he attempts, with studied Arts to please,
And sheds his Venome, in such words as these.

230 Auspicious Prince! at whose Nativity

Some Royal Planet rul'd the Southern sky;
Thy longing Countries Darling and Desire;
Their cloudy Pillar, and their guardian Fire:
Their second Moses, whose extended Wand
Divides the Seas, and shews the promis'd Land:
Whose dawning Day, in every distant age,
Has exercis'd the Sacred Prophets rage:
The Peoples Prayer, the glad Deviners Theam,
The Young-mens Vision, and the Old mens Dream!
240 Thee, Saviour, Thee, the Nations Vows confess;
And, never satisfi'd with seeing, bless:
Swift, unbespoken Pomps, thy steps proclaim,
And stammerring Babes are taught to lisp thy Name.
How long wilt thou the general Joy detain;
Starve, and defraud the People of thy Reign?

214 ful well] Q1-9, F3, Oi—2, M; fulwell F 1 - 2 .

235 Divides] Q1-4, F3, Q6-9, O1-2; Shuts up F t - 2 , Q5, M.
 Absalom and Achitophel
»3

Content ingloriously to pass thy days

Like one of Vertues Fools that feeds on Praise;
Till thy fresh Glories, which now shine so bright,
Grow Stale and Tarnish with our daily sight.
250 Believe me, Royal Youth, thy Fruit must be,
Or gather'd Ripe, or rot upon the Tree.
Heav'n, has to all allotted, soon or late,
Some lucky Revolution of their Fate:
Whose Motions, if we watch and guide with Skill,
(For humane Good depends on humane Will,)
Our Fortune rolls, as from a smooth Descent,
And, from the first Impression, takes the Bent:
But, if unseiz'd, she glides away like wind;
And leaves repenting Folly far behind.
260 Now, now she meets you, with a glorious prize,
And spreads her Locks before her as she flies.
Had thus Old David, from whose Loyns you spring,
Not dar'd, when Fortune call'd him, to be King,
At Gath an Exile he might still remain,
And heavens Anointing Oyle had been in vain.
Let his successfull Youth your hopes engage,
But shun th' example of Declining Age:
Behold him setting in his Western Skies,
T h e Shadows lengthning as the Vapours rise.
270 H e is not now, as when on Jordan's Sand
T h e Joyfull People throng'd to see him Land,
Cov'ring the Beach, and blackning all the Strand:
But, like the Prince of Angels from his height,
Comes tumbling downward with diminish'd light;
Betray'd by one poor Plot to publick Scorn,
(Our only blessing since his Curst Return:)
Those heaps of People which one Sheaf did bind,
Blown off and scatter'd by a puff of Wind.
What strength can he to your Designs oppose,
280 Naked of Friends, and round beset with Foes?
If Pharaoh's doubtfull Succour he shoud use,
A Foreign Aid woud more Incense the Jews:
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 Jack-in-the-Pulpit. Indian Turnip.
Arisæma triphyllum. Arum Family.

Scape.—Terminated by a hood-like leaf or spathe. Leaves.—Generally two,

each divided into three leaflets. Flowers.—Small and inconspicuous, packed about
the lower part of the fleshy spike or spadix which is shielded by the spathe. Fruit.—
A bright scarlet berry which is packed upon the spadix with many others.
These quaint little preachers, ensconced in their delicate pulpits,
are well known to all who love the woods in early spring. Sometimes
these “pulpits” are of a light green veined with a deeper tint; again
they are stained with purple. This difference in color has been
thought to indicate the sex of the flowers within—the males are said
to be shielded by the green, the females by the purple, hoods. In the
nearly allied cuckoo-pints of England, matters appear to be reversed:
these plants are called “Lords and Ladies” by the children, the
purple-tinged ones being the “Lords,” the light green ones the
“Ladies.” The generic name, Arisæma, signifies bloody arum, and
refers to the dark purple stains of the spathe. An old legend claims
that these were received at the Crucifixion:
Beneath the cross it grew;
And in the vase-like hollow of the leaf,
Catching from that dread shower of agony
A few mysterious drops, transmitted thus
Unto the groves and hills their healing stains,
A heritage, for storm or vernal shower
Never to blow away.
 PLATE CIV

JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT.—A. triphyllum.

The Indians were in the habit of boiling the bright scarlet berries
which are so conspicuous in our autumn woods and devouring them
with great relish; they also discovered that the bulb-like base or
corm, as it is called, lost its acridity on cooking, and made nutritious
food, winning for the plant its name of Indian turnip. One of its more
local titles is memory-root, which it owes to a favorite school-boy
trick of tempting others to bite into the blistering corm with results
likely to create a memorable impression.
The English cuckoo-pint yielded a starch which was greatly
valued in the time of Elizabethan ruffs, although it proved too
blistering to the hands of the washerwomen to remain long in use.
Owing to the profusion with which the plant grows in Ireland efforts
have been made to utilize it as food in periods of scarcity. By grating
the corm into water, and then pouring off the liquid and drying the
sediment, it is said that a tasteless, but nutritious, powder can be
procured.

Alum-root.
Heuchera Americana. Saxifrage Family.

Stems.—Two to three feet high, glandular, more or less hairy. Leaves.—Heart-

shaped, with short, rounded lobes, wavy-toothed, mostly from the root. Flowers.—
Greenish or purplish, in long narrow clusters. Calyx.—Bell-shaped, broad, five-
cleft. Corolla.—Of five small petals. Stamens.—Five. Pistil.—One, with two slender
styles.
In May the slender clusters of the alum-root are found in the
rocky woods.

Blue Cohosh.
Caulophyllum thalictroides. Barberry Family.

Stems.—One to two and a half feet high. Leaf.—Large, divided into many lobed
leaflets; often a smaller one at the base of the flower-cluster. Flowers.—Yellowish-
green, clustered at the summit of the stem, appearing while the leaf is still small.
Calyx.—Of six sepals, with three or four small bractlets at base. Corolla.—Of six
thick, somewhat kidney-shaped or hooded petals, with short claws. Stamens.—Six.
Pistil.—One. Fruit.—Bluish, berry-like.
In the deep rich woods of early spring, especially westward, may
be found the clustered flowers and divided leaf of the blue cohosh.
The generic name is from two Greek words signifying stem and leaf,
“the stems seeming to form a stalk for the great leaf.” (Gray.)

Early Meadow Rue.

Thalictrum dioicum. Crowfoot Family.

One to two feet high. Leaves.—Divided into many smooth, lobed, pale,
drooping leaflets. Flowers.—Purplish and greenish, unisexual. Calyx.—Of four or
five petal-like sepals. Corolla.—None. Stamens.—Indefinite in number, with linear
yellowish anthers drooping on hair-like filaments (stamens and pistils occurring
on different plants). Pistils.—Four to fourteen.
The graceful drooping foliage of this plant is perhaps more
noticeable than the small flowers which appear in the rocky woods in
April or May.

Lily-leaved Liparis.
Liparis liliifolia. Orchis Family (p. 17).

Scape.—Low, from a solid bulb. Leaves.—Two, ovate, smooth. Flowers.—

Purplish or greenish, with thread-like reflexed petals and a large brown-purplish
lip an inch and a half long; growing in a raceme.
In the moist, rich woods of June we may look for these flowers.
The generic name is derived from two Greek words which signify fat
or shining, in reference to “the smooth or unctuous leaves.” (Gray.)

Beechdrops. Cancer-root.
Epiphegus Virginiana. Broom-rape Family.

Stems.—Slender, fleshy, branching, with small scales; purplish, yellowish or

brownish. Leaves.—None. Flowers.—Purplish, yellowish or brownish, spiked or
racemed, small, of two kinds, the upper sterile, the lower fertile.
These curious-looking plants abound in the shade of beech-
trees, drawing nourishment from their roots. The upper open flowers
are sterile; the lower ones, which never expand, accomplish the
continuance of their kind.

Pine Sap. False Beechdrops.

Monotropa Hypopitys. Heath Family.

A low fleshy herb without green foliage; tawny, reddish, or whitish. Flowers.—
Resembling in structure those of the Indian pipe, but clustered in a raceme.
The pine sap is a parasitic plant which is closely allied to the
Indian pipe (Pl. XXI.). Its clustered flowers are usually fragrant. The
plant is commonly of a somewhat tawny hue, but occasionally one
finds a bright red specimen. It flourishes in oak or pine-woods from
June till August.

Rattlesnake-root.
Prenanthes alba.

Height.—Two to four feet. Leaves.—The lower cleft or toothed, the uppermost

oblong and undivided. Flower-heads.—Nodding, composed of white or greenish
strap-shaped flowers surrounded by a purplish involucre.

Lion’s Foot. Gall-of-the-Earth.

Prenanthes serpentaria. Composite Family (p. 13).

Height.—About two feet. Leaves.—Roughish, the lower lobed, the upper

oblong lance-shaped. Flower-heads.—Nodding, composed of greenish or cream-
colored strap-shaped flowers surrounded by a greenish or purple involucre.
These plants are peculiarly decorative in late summer on
account of their graceful, drooping, bell-shaped flower-heads. The
flowers themselves almost escape notice, and their color is rather
difficult to determine, the purplish or greenish involucre being the
plants’ conspicuous feature.
The generic name is from the Greek, and signifies drooping
blossom.

Wild Bean. Ground-nut.

Apios tuberosa. Pulse Family (p. 16).

Stem.—Twining and climbing over bushes. Leaves.—Divided into three to

seven narrowly oval leaflets. Flowers.—Papilionaceous, purplish or chocolate-
color, somewhat violet-scented, closely clustered in racemes.
In late summer the dark, rich flowers of the wild bean are found
in short, thick clusters among the luxuriant undergrowth and
thickets of low ground. The plant is a climber, bearing edible pear-
shaped tubers on underground shoots, which give it its generic name
signifying a pear.
 Coral-root.
Corallorhiza multiflora. Orchis Family (p. 17).

Rootstock.—Much branched, coral-like, toothed. Stem.—Nine to eighteen

inches high, without green foliage. Flowers.—Rather small, dull brownish-purple
or yellowish, sometimes mottled with red; growing in a raceme.
In the dry summer woods one frequently encounters the dull
racemes of this rather inconspicuous little plant. It is often found in
the immediate neighborhood of the Indian pipe and pine sap. Being,
like them, without green foliage, it might be taken for an allied
species by the casual observer. This is one of those orchids which are
popularly considered unworthy to bear the name, giving rise to so
much incredulity or disappointment in the unbotanical.
 INDEX TO LATIN NAMES

Achillea Millefolium, 94
Actæa alba, 50
Actæa rubra, 52
Agrimonia Eupatoria, 156
Aletris farinosa, 86
Alisma Plantago, 98
Althæa officinalis, 206
Amelanchier oblongifolia, 22
Ampelopsis quinquefolia, 65
Amphicarpæa monoica, 262
Anagallis arvensis, 226
Anaphilis margaritacea, 112
Anemone nemorosa, 24
Anemone Virginiana, 76
Anemonella thalictroides, 26
Antennaria plantaginifolia, 32
Anthemis Cotula, 71
Aphyllon uniflorum, 236
Apios tuberosa, 284
Apocynum androsæmifolium, 188
Aquilegia Canadensis, 214
Aralia nudicaulis, 42
Aralia quinquefolia, 40
Aralia racemosa, 42
Aralia trifolia, 40
Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi, 46
Arethusa bulbosa, 248
Arisæma triphyllum, 280
Asarum Canadense, 278
Asclepias Cornuti, 192
Asclepias incarnata, 193
Asclepias purpurascens, 193
Asclepias quadrifolia, 193
Asclepias tuberosa, 222
Asclepias verticillata, 110
Ascyrum Crux-Andreæ, 150
Aster cordifolius, 268
Aster corymbosus, 105
Aster ericoides, 105
Aster multiflorus, 106
Aster Novæ Angliæ, 268
Aster patens, 268
Aster puniceus, 268
Aster spectabilis, 268
Aster umbellatus, 105

Baccharis halimifolia, 110

Baptisia tinctoria, 144
Barbarea vulgaris, 130
Berberis vulgaris, 142
Bidens chrysanthemoides, 168
Bidens frondosa, 166
Brassica nigra, 130
Brunella vulgaris, 254

Calopogon pulchellus, 182

Caltha palustris, 113
Campanula rotundifolia, 241
Capsella Bursa-pastoris, 29
Cardamine rhomboidea, 29
Cassia Chamæcrista, 148
Cassia Marilandica, 146
Castilleia coccinea, 219
Caulophyllum thalictroides, 282
Ceanothus Americanus, 71
Celastrus scandens, 77
Cephalanthus occidentalis, 82
Cerastium arvense, 74
Chelidonium majus, 116
Chelone glabra, 100
Chimaphila maculata, 68
Chimaphila umbellata, 68
Chiogenes serpyllifolia, 46
Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum, 68
Chrysopsis falcata, 160
Chrysopsis Mariana, 160
Cichorium Intybus, 266
Cicuta maculata, 97
Cimicifuga racemosa, 78
Circæa Alpina, 76
Circæa Lutetiana, 76
Claytonia Virginica, 32
Clematis Virginiana, 102
Clethra alnifolia, 104
Clintonia borealis, 122
Clintonia umbellata, 124
Collinsia verna, 234
Collinsonia Canadensis, 158
Comandra umbellata, 71
Commelina Virginica, 256
Convolvulus Americanus, 190
Convolvulus arvensis, 190
Coptis trifolia, 28
Corallorhiza multiflora, 284
Cornus Canadensis, 54
Cornus circinata, 49
Cornus paniculata, 49
Cornus stolonifera, 49
Corydalis aurea, 192
Corydalis glauca, 192
Cratægus coccinea, 50
Crotalaria sagittalis, 145
Cunila Mariana, 270
Cuphea viscosissima, 202
Cuscuta Epilinum, 102
Cuscuta Gronovii, 102
Cynoglossum officinale, 222
Cypripedium acaule, 180
Cypripedium parviflorum, 124
Cypripedium pubescens, 124

Dalibarda repens, 84
Datura Stramonium, 104
Datura Tatula, 105
Daucus Carota, 96
Delphinium exaltatum, 240
Delphinium tricorne, 240
Dentaria diphylla, 29
Desmodium acuminatum, 196
Desmodium Canadense, 194
Desmodium Dillenii, 196
Desmodium nudiflorum, 196
Dianthus Armeria, 198
Dicentra Canadensis, 36
Dicentra Cucullaria, 34
Diervilla trifida, 134
Discopleura capillacea, 97
Draba verna, 29
Drosera Americana, 91
Drosera filiformis, 91
Drosera rotundifolia, 91

Echinocystis lobata, 105

Echium vulgare, 257
Elodes campanulata, 204
Epigæa repens, 173
Epilobium angustifolium, 208
Epilobium coloratum, 210
Epilobium hirsutum, 208
Epiphegus Virginiana, 283
Erigenia bulbosa, 30
Erigeron annuus, 70
Erigeron bellidifolius, 235
Erigeron Philadelphicus, 236
Erigeron strigosus, 70
Erythronium albidum, 116
Erythronium Americanum, 114
Eupatorium ageratoides, 106
Eupatorium perfoliatum, 106
Eupatorium purpureum, 210
Euphorbia corollata, 80

Galium Aparine, 76
Gaultheria procumbens, 72
Gaylussacia resinosa, 66
Genista tinctoria, 145
Gentiana Andrewsii, 272
Gentiana crinita, 274
Gentiana quinqueflora, 272
Geranium maculatum, 238
Geranium Robertianum, 193
Gerardia flava, 168
Gerardia maritima, 210
Gerardia purpurea, 210
Gerardia quercifolia, 168
Gerardia tenuifolia, 210
Geum album, 86
Gnaphalium polycephalum, 112
Goodyera pubescens, 94

Habenaria blephariglottis, 92
Habenaria ciliaris, 152
Habenaria fimbriata, 249
Habenaria lacera, 82
Habenaria psycodes, 249
Habenaria virescens, 82
Hamamelis Virginiana, 170
Hedeoma pulegioides, 249
Helenium autumnale, 166
Helianthemum Canadense, 140
Helianthus annuus, 166
Helianthus divaricatus, 164
Helianthus giganteus, 164
Hepatica triloba, 229
Heuchera Americana, 282
Hibiscus Moscheutos, 206
Hieracium aurantiacum, 224
Hieracium scabrum, 132
Hieracium venosum, 132
Houstonia cærulea, 232
Hudsonia tomentosa, 134
Hydrophyllum Virginicum, 72
Hypericum perforatum, 148
Hypoxis erecta, 142

Ilex verticillata, 52
Impatiens fulva, 154
Impatiens pallida, 154
Inula Helenium, 162
Iris versicolor, 244

Jeffersonia diphylla, 30

Kalmia angustifolia, 185

Kalmia latifolia, 57
Krigia amplexicaulis, 132
Krigia Virginica, 132

Lathyrus maritimus, 264

Leontodon autumnalis, 164
Leonurus cardiaca, 250
Lespedeza capitata, 194
Lespedeza polystachya, 194
Lespedeza procumbens, 194
Lespedeza reticulata, 194
Liatris scariosa, 270
Lilium Canadense, 136
Lilium Philadelphicum, 219
Lilium superbum, 220
Linaria Canadensis, 257
Linaria vulgaris, 146
Lindera Benzoin, 114
Linnæa borealis, 176
Liparis liliifolia, 283
Lobelia cardinalis, 226
Lobelia inflata, 262
Lobelia syphilitica, 260
Lonicera ciliata, 228
Lonicera grata, 228
Lonicera sempervirens, 228
Lupinus perennis, 240
Lychnis Githago, 252
Lysimachia quadrifolia, 138
Lysimachia stricta, 140
Lythrum Salicaria, 198

Magnolia glauca, 56
Maianthemum Canadense, 28
Malva rotundifolia, 206
Medeola Virginica, 127
Medicago lupulina, 144
Melampyrum Americanum, 136
Melilotus alba, 72
Melilotus officinalis, 145
Menispermum Canadense, 56
Mertensia Virginica, 234
Mikania scandens, 108
Mimulus ringens, 250
Mitchella repens, 80
Mitella diphylla, 38
Monarda didyma, 224
Monarda fistulosa, 256
Monotropa Hypopitys, 283
Monotropa uniflora, 74
Myosotis laxa, 235

Nemopanthes fascicularis, 52
Nepeta Glechoma, 238
Nuphar advena, 128
Nymphæa odorata, 88

Oakesia sessilifolia, 50
Œnothera biennis, 157
Œnothera fruticosa, 157
Œnothera pumila, 157
Opuntia Rafinesquii, 138
Opuntia vulgaris, 138
Orchis spectabilis, 176
Orontium aquaticum, 126
Osmorrhiza longistylis, 97
Oxalis Acetosella, 62
Oxalis stricta, 156
Oxalis violacea, 236

Parnassia Caroliniana, 110

Pastinaca sativa, 126
Pedicularis Canadensis, 218
Penstemon digitalis, 254
Penstemon pubescens, 254
Phlox divaricata, 235
Phlox glaberrima, 235
Phlox maculata, 235
Phlox subulata, 235
Physalis Virginiana, 101
Phytolacca decandra, 92
Pluchea camphorata, 208
Podophyllum peltatum, 30
Pogonia ophioglossoides, 185
Polygala cruciata, 188
Polygala paucifolia, 186
Polygala polygama, 186
Polygala sanguinea, 186
Polygonatum biflorum, 44
Polygonatum giganteum, 44
Polygonella articulata, 212
Polygonum aviculare, 212
Polygonum hydropiperoides, 83
Polygonum Pennsylvanicum, 212
Polygonum scandens, 83
Pontedaria cordata, 257
Potentilla argentea, 122
Potentilla Canadense, 126
Potentilla fruticosa, 126
Prenanthes alba, 284
Prenanthes serpentaria, 284
Pyrola elliptica, 66
Pyrola rotundifolia, 66
Pyrus arbutifolia, 44
Pyxidanthera barbulata, 28

Ranunculus ambigens, 127

Raphanus Raphanistrum, 130
Rhexia Virginica, 200
Rhododendron maximum, 60
Rhododendron nudiflorum, 182
Rhododendron Rhodora, 184
Rhododendron viscosum, 58
Rhus Toxicodendron, 65
Rhus typhina, 64
Rhus venenata, 64
Rubus odoratus, 190
Rudbeckia hirta, 158
Rudbeckia laciniata, 160

Sabbatia angularis, 204

Sabbatia chloroides, 204
Sabbatia stellaris, 202
Sagittaria variabilis, 98
Sambucus Canadensis, 78
Sambucus racemosa, 54
Sanguinaria Canadensis, 78
Saponaria officinalis, 196
Sarracenia purpurea, 236
Saururus cernuus, 56
Saxifraga Virginiensis, 36
Scutellaria galericulata, 244
Scutellaria integrifolia, 242
Scutellaria lateriflora, 244
Senecio aureus, 122
Senecio vulgaris, 122
Silene antirrhina, 180
Silene Cucubalus, 84
Silene Pennsylvanica, 178
Silene stellata, 84
Sisyrinchium angustifolium, 241
Sium cicutæfolium, 98
Smilacina racemosa, 46
Smilax herbacea, 39
Smilax rotundifolia, 39
Solanum Dulcamara, 258
Solidago bicolor, 162
Solidago cæsia, 162
Solidago lanceolata, 162
Solidago nemoralis, 162
Solidago odorata, 162
Solidago rugosa, 162
Specularia perfoliata, 242
Spiræa salicifolia, 88
Spiræa tomentosa, 198
Spiranthes cernua, 108
Spiranthes gracilis, 108
Statice Caroliniana, 269
Steironema ciliatum, 142
Stellaria longifolia, 74
Stellaria media, 74
Streptopus roseus, 178
Strophostyles angulosa, 264
Stylophorum diphyllum, 118
Symplocarpus fœtidus, 276

Tanacetum vulgare, 170

Taraxacum officinale, 132