Chapter I: Front Matter

THE
WORKS
OF
JOHN DRYDEN.

THE
WORKS
OF
JOHN DRYDEN,

NOW FIRST COLLECTED
IN EIGHTEEN VOLUMES.

ILLUSTRATED
WITH NOTES,
HISTORICAL, CRITICAL, AND EXPLANATORY,
AND
A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,
BY
WALTER SCOTT, ESQ.

VOL. XII.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR WILLIAM MILLER, ALBEMARLE STREET,
BY JAMES BALLANTYNE AND CO. EDINBURGH.

1808.

CONTENTS
OF
VOLUME TWELFTH.

PAGE.

Appendix to the Fables, i

The Knightes Tale, by Chaucer, iii

The Nonnes Preestes Tale, liii

The Floure and the Leafe, lxviii

The Wif of Bathes Tale, lxxxii

TRANSLATIONS FROM OVID'S EPISTLES.

Preface, 3

Canace to Macareus, 21

Helen to Paris, 26

Dido to Æneas, 35

TRANSLATIONS FROM OVID'S METAMORPHOSES.

Dedication to Lord Radcliffe, 47

The First Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses, 63

Meleager and Atalanta, 97

Baucis and Philemon, 109

Iphis and Ianthe, 116

Pygmalion and the Statue, 123

Cinyras and Myrrha, 127

Ceyx and Alcyone, 139

Æsacus transformed into a Cormorant, 154

The Twelfth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses, 156

The Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses, 181

Acis, Polyphemus, and Galatea, 199

Of the Pythagorean Philosophy, 207

TRANSLATIONS FROM OVID'S ART OF LOVE.

Preface on Translation, prefixed to Dryden's Second
Miscellany, 263

TRANSLATIONS FROM THEOCRITUS.

Amaryllis, 287

The Epithalamium of Helen and Menelaus, 292

The Despairing Lover, 296

Daphnis and Chloris, 300

TRANSLATIONS FROM LUCRETIUS.

Book I. 311

II. 314

III. 317

IV. 327

V. 337

TRANSLATIONS FROM HORACE.

The Third Ode of the First Book of Horace, 341

The Ninth Ode of the First Book, 344

The Twenty-ninth Ode of the First Book, 346

The Second Epode of Horace, 351

TRANSLATIONS FROM HOMER.

The First Book of Homer's Iliad, 357

The last Parting of Hector and Andromache, 382