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. III.

LONDON:

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By Law and Gilbert, St. John's-Square, Clerkenwell.

To her Grace the Dutchefs of Ormond

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

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The Cock and the Fox; or, the Tale of the Nun's Prieft 175

The Flower and the Leaf; or, the Lady in the Arbour.

Meleager and Atalanta, out of the Eighth Book of

Ovid's Metamorphofes

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425

Baucis and Philemon, out of the Eighth Book of

Ovid's Metamorphofes

445

The Fable of Iphis and Ianthe, from the Ninth

Book of Ovid's Metamorphofes

455

Pygmalion and the Statue, from the Tenth Book of

Cinyras and Myrrha, out of the Tenth Book of

Ovid's Metamorphofes

Ceyx and Alcyone, out of the Tenth Book of Ovid's

Metamorphofes

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Æfacus transformed into a Cormorant. From the

Eleventh Book of Ovid's Metamorphofes

The Twelfth Book of Ovid's Metamorphofes wholly

tranflated

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SOME eftates are held in England by paying a fine at the change of every lord. I have enjoyed the patronage of your family, from the time of your excellent grandfather to this prefent day. I have dedicated the translation of the Lives of Plutarch to the firft Duke; and have celebrated the memory of your heroic father. Though I am very fhort of the age Neftor, yet I have lived to a third generation of your houfe; houfe; and by your Grace's favour am admitted ftill to hold from you by the fame

tenure.

of

I am not vain enough to boast that I have deferved the value of fo illuftrious a line; but my fortune is the greater, that for three defcents they have been pleafed to diftinguifh my