Excerpt from The Works of John Dryden, Vol. 16 of 18: Illustrated With Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author Your Majesty is authorised, by the greatest example of a mother, to rejoice in a promised son. The blessed Virgin was not without as great a proportion of joy as humanity could bear, when she answered the salutation of the angel in expres sions, which seemed to unite the contradicting terms of calmness and of transport Be it to thy handmaid according to thy word. 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.