Note 1 — LECTURE I
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In a letter to his sons John and Charles, dated Sept. 3, 1697, Dryden says ‘Towards the latter end of this month, September, Charles will begin to recover his perfect health according to his nativity, which, casting it myself, I am sure is true, and all things hitherto have happened according to the very time that I predicted them.’ See also the Preface to his Fables, and the lines
The utmost malice of the stars is past— Now frequent trines the happier lights among, And high raised Jove, from his dark prison freed, Those weights took off that on his planet hung, Will gloriously the new-laid works succeed.