The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 459 pages of information about The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07.

The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 459 pages of information about The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07.
Great Albion’s name;
Great Albion’s name shall be
The theme of Fame, shall be great Albion’s name,
Great Albion’s name, great Albion’s name. 
Record the garter’s glory;
A badge for heroes, and for kings to bear;
For kings to bear! 
And swell the immortal story,
With songs of Gods, and fit for Gods to hear;
And swell the immortal story,
With songs of Gods, and fit for Gods to hear;
For Gods to hear.

A full Chorus of all the Voices and Instruments; trumpets and hautboys make Ritornello’s of all FAME sings; and twenty-four Dancers, all the time in a chorus, and dance to the end of the Opera.

Footnotes: 
1.  The reader must recollect the orders of the Rump parliament to
   general Monk, to destroy the gates and portcullises of the city of
   London; which commission, by the bye, he actually executed, with
   all the forms of contempt, although, in a day or two after, he took
   up his quarters in the city, apologized for what had passed, and
   declared against the parliament.

2.  Dr. Titus Oates, the principal witness to the Popish Plot, was
   accused of unnatural and infamous crimes.  He was certainly a most
   ineffably impudent, perjured villain.

3.  The Chacon is supposed by Sir John Hawkins to be of Moorish or
   Saracenic origin.  “The characteristic of the Chacone is a bass, or
   ground, consisting of four measures, wherein three crotchets make
   the bar, and the repetition thereof with variations in the several
   parts, from the beginning to the end of the air, which in respect
   of its length, has no limit but the discretion of the composer.  The
   whole of the twelfth sonata of the second opera of Corelli is a
   Chacone.” Hist. of Music, vol. iv. p. 388.  There is also, I am
   informed, a very celebrated Chacon composed by Jomelli.

4.  By the White Boys or Property Boys, are meant the adherents of
   the Duke of Monmouth, who affected great zeal for liberty and
   property, and assumed white badges, as marks of the innocence of
   their intentions.  When the Duke came to the famous Parliament held
   at Oxford, “he was met by about 100 Batchellors all in white,
   except black velvet caps, with white wands in their hands, who
   divided themselves, and marched as a guard to his person.” Account
   of the Life of the Duke of Monmouth
, p. 107.  In the Duke’s tour
   through the west of England, he was met at Exeter, by “a brave
   company of brisk stout young men, all cloathed in linen waistcoats
   and drawers, white and harmless, having not so much as a stick in
   their hands; they were in number about 900 or 1000.” ibid. p.
   103.  See the notes on Absalom and Achitophel.  The saints, on the
   other hand, mean the ancient republican zealots and fanatics, who,
   though they would willingly have joined in the destruction of
   Charles, did not wish that Monmouth should succeed him, but aimed
   at the restoration of the commonwealth.  Hence the following dispute
   betwixt Tyranny and Democracy.

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