Whạt should the people do, when left alone?T
The Governor and Government are gone. -
The publick Wealth to Foreign Parts .convey'd;
Some Troops disbanded, and the reft unpaid.
Rhodes is the Soveraign of the Sea no more;
Their Ships unrigg'd, and spent their Naval Store ;
They neither could defend, nor can pursue,
But grin'd their Teeth, and cast a helpless view:
In vain with Darts a distanç War they try,
Short, and more short the missive. Weapons fly.
Mean while the Ravishers their Crimes enjoy,
And flying Sails and sweeping Oars employ;
The Cliffs of Rhodes in little space are lost,
Jove's Isle they feek; nor Jove denies his Coast.

In Safety landed on the Candian Shore,
With generous Wines their Spirits they restore;
There Cymon with his Rhodian Friend resides,
Both Court, and Wed at once the willing Brides,
A War ensues, the Cretans own their Cause,
Stiff to defend their hospitable Laws:
Both Parties lose by turns; and neither wins,
?Till Peace propounded by a Truce begins.

The Kindred of the Slain forgive the Deed, But a short Exile must for Show precede; The Term expir’d, from Candia they remove; And happy each, at Home, enjoys his Love.

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Edication to His Grace the Duke of Ormond.

The Preface.
Poem to Her Grace the Dutchefs of Ormond,

with the following Story of Palamon and Arcite,
from Chaucer.

Palamon and Arcite: Or, the Knight's Tale,

from Chaucer. Book the First. Page 1

The Second Book.

P. 30

The Third Book.

To my Honoured Kinsman John Driden of Chester-

ton, in the County of Huntington, Esq; p.115

Meleager and Attalanta, out of the Eighth Book

of Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccace. p. 146.

Baucis and Philemon, out of the Eighth Book of

Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Pigmalion and the Statue, out of the Tenth Book

of Ovid's Metamorphoses.

р. б

P. 126

P. 218

Ciniras and Myrrha, out of the Tenth Book of

Ovid's Metamorphoses.

p. 199

The First Book of Homer's Ilias,

The Cock and the Fox: Or, the Tale of the Nun's

Priest, from Chaucer.

P. 258

Theodore and Honoria, from Boccace. p. 296

Ceyx and Alcyone, out of the Tenth Book of O-

vid's Metamorphoses.

P. 317

The Flower and the Leaf: Or, the Lady in the

Arbour. " A Vision out of Chaucer. p. 341

Alexander's Feast: Or; the Power of Mufick. An

Ode in Honour of St. Cecilia.

p. 370

The Twelfth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses whol

Ly Translated.

The Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses, from Ovid's

Metamorphoses, Book the Thirteenth.

P. 420

The Wife of Bath, her Tale from Chaucer. p. 449

Of the Pythagorean Philofophy, from Ovid's Me-

tamorphoses, Book the Fifteenth. p. 475

The Character of a Good Parfoni Imitated from

Chaucer, and enlarged.

P.510

The Monument of a Fair Maiden Lady, who dy'd

at the Bath, and is there Interr'd.

p. 517

Cymon and Iphigenia; from Boccace. P. 520

p. 380