Chapter XI: Prologue: TO (3)

This great work was undertaken by Dryden, in 1694, and published, by subscription, in 1697. One hundred and one subscribers gave five guineas each to furnish the engravings for the work; if indeed this was any thing more than a genteel pretext for increasing the profit of the author; for Spence has informed us, that the old plates used for Ogleby's "Virgil," were retouched for that of his great successor. Another class of subscribers, two hundred and fifty-two in number, contributed two guineas each. As the names of those who encouraged this great national labour have some claim to distinction, the reader will find, prefixed to this edition, an accurate copy of both lists, as they stand in the first folio edition. On 28th June, 1697, the following advertisement appeared in the London Gazette:

"The Works of Virgil; containing his Pastorals, Georgics, and Eneis, translated into English verse, by Mr Dryden, and adorned with one hundred cuts, will be finished this week, and be ready next week to be delivered, as subscribed for, in quires, upon bringing the receipt for the first payment, and paying the second. Printed for Jacob Tonson, &c."

In 1709, Tonson published a second edition of Dryden's "Virgil," with the plates reduced, in three volumes, 8vo; and various others have since appeared. In 1803, a new edition was given to the public, revised and corrected by Henry Carey, LL.D. This is so correct, that, although it has been uniformly compared with the original edition of Tonson, I have thought it advisable to follow the modern editor in some corrections of the punctuation and reading. In other cases, where I have adhered to the folio, I have placed Dr Carey's alteration at the bottom of the page. It is hardly worth while to notice, that there is a slight alteration of the arrangement of Dryden's prolegomena; the Dedication to the "Pastorals" being placed immediately before that class of poems, instead of preceding the Life, as in the original folio. Dryden's Notes and Observations, which, in the original, are printed together at the end of the work, are, in this edition, dispersed and subjoined to the different Books containing the passages to which they refer.

THE

NAMES OF THE SUBSCRIBERS

TO

THE CUTS OF VIRGIL,

IN THE FOLIO EDITION, 1697.

EACH SUBSCRIPTION BEING FIVE GUINEAS.

PASTORALS.

1. Lord Chancellor
2. Lord Privy Seal
3. Earl of Dorset
4. Lord Buckhurst
5. Earl of Abingdon
6. Lord Viscount Cholmondely
7. Lord Herbert of Cherbury.
8. Lord Clifford
9. Marq. of Hartington
10. The Hon. Mr Ch. Mountague

GEORGIC I.

11. Sir Tho. Trevor
12. Sir John Hawles
13. Joseph Jeakyl, Esq.
14. Tho. Vernon, Esq.
15. Will. Dobyns, Esq.

GEORGIC II.

16. Sir Will. Bower
17. Gilbert Dolbin, Esq.
18. Geo. London, Esq.
19. John Loving, Esq.
20. Will. Walsh, Esq.

GEORGIC III.

21. Duke of Richmond
22. Sir J. Isham, Bart.
23. Sir Tho. Mompesson
24. John Dormer, Esq.
25. Frederick Tylney, Esq.

GEORGIC IV.

26. Richard Norton, Esq.
27. Sir Will. Trumbull
28. Sir Barth. Shower
29. Symon Harcourt, Esq.
30. John Granvill, Esq.

ÆNEID I.

31. Prince George of Denmark
32. Princess Ann of Denmark
33. Duchess of Ormond
34. Countess of Exeter
35. Countess-Dowager of Winchelsea
36. Marchioness of Normanby

ÆNEID II.

37. Duke of Somerset
38. Earl of Salisbury
39. Earl of Inchiqueen
40. Earl of Orrery
41. Lord Viscount Dunbar
42. Countess-Dowager of Northampton

ÆNEID III.

43. Earl of Darby
44. Bishop of Durham
45. Bishop of Ossery
46. Dr John Mountague
47. Dr Brown
48. Dr Guibbons

ÆNEID IV.

49. Earl of Exeter
50. Lady Giffard
51. Lord Clifford
52. John Walkaden, Esq.
53. Henry Tasburgh Esq.
54. Mrs Ann Brownlow

ÆNEID V.

55. Duke of St Albans
56. Earl of Torrington
57. Anth. Hamond, Esq.
58. Henry St Johns, Esq.
59. Steph. Waller, LL.D.
60. Duke of Glocester
61. Edmond Waller, Esq.

ÆNEID VI.

62. Earl of Denbigh
63. Sir Tho. Dyke, Bart.
64. Mrs Ann Bayner
65. John Lewknor, Esq.
66. Sir Fleetwood Shepherd
67. John Poultney, Esq.
68. John Knight, Esq.
69. Robert Harley, Esq.

ÆNEID VII.

70. Earl of Rumney
71. Anthony Henley, Esq.
72. George Stepney, Esq.
73. Coll. Tho. Farringdon
74. Lady Mary Sackvill
75. Charles Fox, Esq.

ÆNEID VIII.

76. Earl of Ailesbury
77. The Hon. Mr Robert Bruce
78. Christopher Rich, Esq.
79. Sir Godfrey Kneller

ÆNEID IX.

80. Earl of Sunderland
81. Thomas Foley, Esq.
82. Col. Geo. Cholmondly
83. Sir John Percival, Bart.
84. Col. Christopher Codrington
85. Mr John Closterman.

ÆNEID X.

86. Lord Visc. Fitzharding
87. Sir Robert Howard
88. Sir John Leuson Gore, Bart.
89. Sir Charles Orby
90. Tho. Hopkins, Esq.

ÆNEID XI.

91. Duke of Shrewsbury
92. Sir W. Kirkham Blount, Bart.
93. John Noell, Esq.
94. Marquis of Normanby
95. Lord Berkley
96. Arthur Manwareing, Esq.

ÆNEID XII.

97. Earl of Chesterfield
98. Brigadier Fitzpatrick
99. Dr Tho. Hobbs
100. Lord Guilford
101. Duke of Ormond

THE

NAMES OF THE SECOND SUBSCRIBERS.

A.

Lord Ashley
Sir James Ash, Bart.
Sir James Ash, Bart.
Sir Francis Andrew, Bart.
Charles Adderley, Esq.
Mrs Ann Ash
Edw. Ash, Esq.
Mr Francis Atterbury
Sam. Atkins, Esq.
Tho. Austen, Esq.
Ro. Austen, Esq.

B.

Earl of Bullingbrook
Sir Ed. Bettenson, Bart.
Sir Tho. Pope Blount, Bart.
Sir John Bolles
Sir Will. Bowes
Will. Blathwayt, Esq.
Secretary of War
Will. Barlow, Esq.
Peregrine Bertye, Esq.
Will. Bridgman, Esq.
Orlando Bridgman, Esq.
Will. Bridges, Esq.
Char. Bloodworth, Esq.
The Hon. Henry Boyl, Esq.
Rich. Boyl, Esq.
Chidley Brook, Esq.
Will. Bromley, Esq. of Warwickshire
Mich. Bruneau, Esq.
Tho. Bulkley, Esq.
Theoph. Butler, Esq.
Capt. John Berkeley
Mr Jo. Bowes, Prebend. of Durham
Mr Jeremiah Ball
Mr John Ball
Mr Richard Banks
Mrs Elizabeth Barry
Mr Beckford
Mr Tho. Betterton
Mrs Catharine Blount
Mr Bond
Mr Bond
Mrs Ann Bracegirdle
Mr Samuel Brockenborough
Mrs Elizabeth Brown
Mr Moses Bruche
Mr Lancelot Burton