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The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 15

Note 106 — AN ESSAY OF DRAMATIC POESY.

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The third of June, 1665. See the "Annus Mirabilis," and the Notes, Vol. IX. p. 108, 161. Our author, in his poem to the Duchess, mentions the circumstance of the cannon being heard at London:

When from afar we heard the cannon play, Like distant thunder on a shiny day. Vol. IX. p. 79.

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