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Miscellany Poems.

Containing Variety of New

TRANSLATIONS

OF THE

ANCIENT POETS:

Together with Several

ORIGINAL POEMS.

By the Most Eminent Hands.
Publish'd by Mr. DRYDEN.

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The FOURTH EDITION.

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LONDON:

Printed for JACOB TONSON at Shakespear's
Head over-against Katharine-Street in

the Strand. M DCC XVI.

CONTENTS.

HE fecond Part of Abfalom and

Achitophel, with a Key to both >Page 1

Parts.

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p. 45

SP. 46

The entire Episode of Mezentius and

Laufus, out of the Tenth Book of Vir- p. 38

gil's Eneids. By Mr. Dryden.

The Speech of Venus to Vulcan.

Mr. Dryden.

Lucretius, the beginning of the First Book."

Tranflated by Mr. Dryden.

Lucretius, the beginning of the Second

Book. Tranflated by Mr. Dryden.

Tranflation of the latter Part of the Third

Book of Lucretius; against the Fear P. 50

of Death. By Mr. Dryden.

Lucretius, the Fourth Book. Concerning
the Nature of Love. By Mr. Dryden.

From Lucretius Book V. By Mr. Dryden.

Daphnis. From Theocritus Idyll. 27.

-P. 48

By

Horace Lib. 1. Ode 9. By Mr. Dryden.

Horat. Ode 29. Book 3. Paraphras'd·

in Pindarique Verses and infcrib'd to

the Right Honourable Lawrence Earl

of Rochefter. By Mr. Dryden.

From Horace, Epod. 2. By Mr. Dryden.

Bajazet to Gloriana, 1684.

P. 59

p. 68

ibid.

p. 72

P. 74

p. 77

P. 80

On Content;

The Chronicle. A Ballad. By Mr. Cowley. p. 84

p. 82

4 Seffion of the Poets. By Sir John p. 87

The Seffion of the Poets,

F. 99