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to4&ty Harvara College Library,

Nov. 14, 1891. LOWELL BEQUEST,

CONTENTS.

VOL. IX.

POEMS OF DRYDEN CONTINUED.

DEDICATION

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Page

Page

3 Æsacus transformed into a Cormorant. From

Preface prefixed to the Fables

9 the eleventh Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses, 101

The twelfth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses,

TALES FROM CHAUCER.

wholly translated

102

To her Grace the Dutchess of Ormond, with the

The Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses. From the
Poem of Palamon and Arcite......

19
thirteenth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses., 108

112
Palamon and Arcite; or, the Knight's Tale.

The Death of Ajax

Book I.

20

The Story of Acis, Polyphemus, and Galatea.

II.

25

From the thirteenth Book of Ovid's Meta-

III.

30 morpboses

113

Of the Pythagorean Philosophy. From the

The Cock and the Fox : or, the Tale of the fifteenth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses ... 114

Nun's Priest .......

39

The Flower and the Leaf : or, the Lady in

TRANSLATIONS FROM OVID'S EPISTLES.

the Arbour: a Vision

45

The Wife of Bath, her Tale

50 Preface concerning Ovid's Epistles

121

The Character of a good Parson

54 Canace to Macareus, Epist. xi. ................... 127

Helen to Paris, Epist. xvii.

128

TRANSLATIONS FROM BOCCACE.

Dido to Æneas, Epist. vii.

130

Sigismonda and Guiscardo.............

55 Translation from Ovid's Art of Love. The

Theodore and Honoria

61 first Book ........

132

Cymon and Iphigenia. Poeta Loquitur 64

TRANSLATIONS FROM HOMER.

TRANSLATIONS FROM OVID'S METAMORPHOSES.
The first Book of Homer's Ilias........

134
Dedication

70

The last Parting of Hector and Andromache.

The first Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses

79

From the sixth Book of the Iliad ....

145

The Golden Age

80

The Silver Age

The Brazen Age

jb.

TRANSLATIONS FROM THEOCRITUS, LUCRETIUS, AND

The Iron age

ib.

The Giant's War.......

ib. Preface concerning Mr. Dryden's Translations. 148

The Transformation of Daphne into a Laurel.. 84 Amaryllis: or, the third Idyllium of Theocri-
The Transformation of lo into an Heifer

tus, paraphrased

154

The Eyes of Argus transformed into a Pea- The Epithalamium of Helen and Menelaus.

cock's Train........

86

From the Idyllium of Theocritus

155

The Transformation of Syrinx into Reeds....... ib. The Beginning of the first Book of Lucretius.. 157

Meleager and Atalanta. Out of the eighth The Beginning of the second Book of Lucre-
Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses ......
87 tins

ib.
Baucis and Philemon. Out of the eighth From the fifth Book of Lucretius

158
Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses ...... 90 The third Ode of the first Book of Horace. In-
The Fable of Iphis and lantbe. From the scribed to the Earl of Roscommon on his
ninth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses 92 intended Voyage to Ireland

ib.

Pygmalion and the Statue. From the tenth The ninth Ode of the first Book of Horace 159

Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses ....

94 The twenty-ninth Ode of the third Book of

Cinegras and Myrrha. Out of the tenth Book Horace paraphrased in Pindaric Verse, and

of Ovid's Metamorphoses

ib. inscribed to the right hon. Laurence Earl

Çeys and Alcyone. Out of the tenth Book of of Rochester ........

ib.

Dvid's Metamorphoses

97 The second Epode of Horace..................... 160

...........

ib.

HORACE.

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