THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

JOHN DRYDEN, ESQ.

CONTAINING

ORIGINAL POEMS,

TALES, AND TRANSLATIONS,

WITH NOTES,

BY THE LATE

REV. JOSEPH WARTON, D. D.

THE

REV. JOHN WARTON, M. A.

AND OTHERS.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. IV.

LONDON:

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V.4

CONTENTS

то

VOL. IV.

The Speeches of Ajax and Ulyffes: from the Thir-

teenth Book of Ovid's Metamorphofes

The Story of Acis, Polyphemus, and Galatea, from

the Thirteenth Book of Ovid's Metamorphofes

Of the Pythagorean Philofophy; from the Fifteenth

Book of Ovid's Metamorphofes

Preface concerning Ovid's Epiftles

Canace to Macareus. Epift. XI.

PAGE.

1

27

37

71

87

From Ovid's Amours. Book 1. Eleg. 1.

155

The First Satire. In dialogue betwixt the Poet and

PAGE

The Fourth Satire of Perfius

451

The Fifth Satire of Perfius

461

The Fifth Satire. Infcribed to the Rev. Dr. Busby

463

The Sixth Satire of Perfius

479

The Sixth Satire. To Cæfius Baffus, a Lyric Poet

481

THE

SPEECHES

OF

AJAX AND ULYSSES:

FROM THE THIRTEENTH BOOK OF

OVID'S METAMORPHOSES*.

THE chiefs were fet, the foldiers crown'd the

field:

To these the mafter of the fevenfold fhield
Upftarted fierce and kindled with difdain,
Eager to fpeak, unable to contain

* The Metamorphofes (as well as the Fafti of Ovid) have preferved, it must be owned, many curious particulars of ancient history, philofophy, and mythology. For Ovid was a great and learned antiquarian, which from the levity and fportiveness of fome of his poems, one would not fufpect. An old French tranflator of Ovid, Thomas Vallois, called the Metamorphofes, the Bible of the poets; his work was printed at Paris, in black letter, 1523. The Abbè Banier published a magnificent edition in 4to. 4 vols. 1767, with hiftorical and mythological illuftrations.Benferade made a kind of traveftie of Ovid in Rondeaux, printed in 4to. with beautiful fculptures. The Abbè Bellegarde tranflated at the fame time Ovid's Metamorphofes, and the pious Thomas à Kempis. Perhaps he was ordered by his confeffor to undertake the latter work as an act of penance; as Dryden was ordered by his confeffor to write the Hind and Panther, as an expiation for having written the Spanish Friar.

Dr. JOSEPH WARTON.