NOW FIRST COLLECTED
IN EIGHTEEN VOLUMES.
ILLUSTRATED
WITH NOTES,
HISTORICAL, CRITICAL, AND EXPLANATORY,
AND
A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,
BY
WALTER SCOTT, Esq.
VOL. VIII.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR WILLIAM MILLER, ALBEMARLE STREET,
BY JAMES BALLANTYNE AND CO. EDINBURGH.
1808.
| PAGE. | |
| Amphitryon, or the Two Sosias, a Comedy, | 1 |
| Epistle Dedicatory to Sir William Leveson Gower, Bart. | 7 |
| King Arthur, or the British Worthy, a Dramatic Opera, | 107 |
| Epistle Dedicatory to the Marquis of Halifax, | 113 |
| Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy, | 181 |
| Epistle Dedicatory to the Earl of Rochester, | 191 |
| Preface, | 196 |
| The Life of Cleomenes, translated from Plutarch by Mr Thomas Creech, | 207 |
| Love Triumphant, or Nature will prevail, a Tragi-comedy, | 331 |
| Epistle Dedicatory to the Earl of Salisbury, | 337 |
| Prologue, Song, Secular Masque, and Epilogue, | |
| written for the Pilgrim, revived for Dryden's benefit in 1700, | 437 |
Plautus, the venerable father of Roman comedy, who flourishedduring the second Punic war, left us a play on the subjectof Amphitryon, which has had the honour to be deemed worthyof imitation by Moliere and Dryden. It cannot be expected, thatthe plain, blunt, and inartificial stile of so rude an age should bearany comparison with that of authors who enjoyed the highestadvantages of the polished times, to which they were an ornament.But the merit of having devised and embodied most of the comicdistresses, which have excited laughter throughout so many ages,is to be attri