Excerpt from The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq., Vol. 3: Containing Almanzor and Almahide, or the Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards, in Two Parts; Marriage a-La-Mode; The Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery; Amboyna, or the Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants Eroick Poefie has always been Sacred to Princes, and to Heroes. Thus Virgil inferib'd his Email: to flan gu m Ga'far; and of latter Ages, Taj/b and firm/f0 dedicated their Poems to the Houfe of E/i. 'tis indeed but Ju ice, that the mofl Excellent and mo Profitable Kind of Writing {hould be ad drefs'd by Poets to fuch Perfons, Whofe Cha raetcrs have, for the mo part, been the Guides and Patterns of their Imitation. And Poets, While they Imitate, In ruet. The fei m'd Heroe in ames the True: And the dead irtue animates the living. Since, therefore, the World is go vern'd by, Precept and Example, and both thefe. 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."