Or fpreads his fubtle nets from fight

With twinkling glaffes, to betray The larks that in the methes light,

Or makes the fearful hare his prey.
Amidst his harmless easy joys

No anxious care invades his health,
Nor love his peace of mind deftroys,
Nor wicked avarice of wealth.
But if a chafte and pleafing wife,
To ease the business of his life,
Divides with him his houfhold care,
Such as the Sabine matrons were,
Such as the swift Apulian's bride,
Sun-burnt and fwarthy though the be

Will fire for winter-nights provide,
And without noife will overfee
His children and his family;
And order all things till he come,
Sweaty and overlabour'd, home;
If the in pens his flocks will fold,

And then produce her dairy ftore,
With wine to drive away the cold,

And unbought dainties of the poor; Not oyfters of the Lucrine lake

My fober appetite would wish, Nor turbot, or the foreign fish That rolling tempefts overtake, And hither waft the coftly dish. Not heathpout, or the rarer bird, Which Phafis or Ionia yields,

More

More pleafing morfels would afford
Than the fat olives of my fields
Than shards or mallows for the pot,

That keep the loofen'd body found,
Or than the lamb, that falls by lot

To the juft guardian of my ground.
Amidst these feafts of happy swains,
The jolly fhepherd fimiles to feet
His flock returning from the plains;
The farmer is as pleas'd as he
To view his oxen fweating fmoke,
Bear on their necks the loofen'd yoke
To look upon his menial crew,

That fit around his chearful hearth,

And bodies fpent in toil renew

With wholesome food and country mirth.

This Morecraft faid within himself,

Refolv'd to leave the wicked town:

And live retir'd upon

He call'd his money in;

his own,

But the prevailing love of pelf, Soon split him on the former shelf, He put it out again.

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CON.

Ceyx and Alcyone

facus transformed into a Cormorant

The Twelfth Book of Ovid's Metamorphofes

The Speeches of Ajax and Ulyffes

Story of Acis, Polyphemus, and Galatea

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16

24

32

37

The Death of Ajax

122

124

TRANSLATIONS from HOMER.

The First Book of Homer's Ilias

The laft Parting of Hector and Andromache, from the Sixth Book of the Iliad

Preface concerning Mr. Dryden's Tranflations

TRANSLATIONS from THEOCRITUS.

The Beginning of the Second Book of Lucretius
From the Fifth Book of Lucretius

317

320.

TRANSLATIONS from HORACE.

"The Third Ode of the First Book of Horace The Ninth Ode of the Firft Book of Horace

323

325

The Twenty-ninth Ode of the First Book of Horace 327

The Second Epode of Horace

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