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: PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON; T. PAYNE; J. NUNN; R. LEA; By Law and Gilbert, St. John's-Square, Clerkenwell. .. 1811. Engleske 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 Preface concerning Ovid's Epiftles 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 *The Metamorphofes (as well as the Fafti of Ovid) have preferved, it must be owned, many curious particulars of ancient hiftory, philofophy, and mythology. For Ovid was a great and learned antiquarian, which from the levity and fportivenefs of fome of his poems, one would not suspect. 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 travestie 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 au expiation for having written the Spanish Friar. Dr. JOSEPH WARTON, VOL. IV. B |