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Title: The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 12

Author: John Dryden

Editor: Walter Scott

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN, NOW FIRST COLLECTED IN EIGHTEEN VOLUMES. VOLUME 12 ***

THE
WORKS
OF
JOHN DRYDEN.

THE

WORKS

JOHN DRYDEN,

NOW FIRST COLLECTED

IN EIGHTEEN VOLUMES.

ILLUSTRATED

WITH NOTES,

HISTORICAL, CRITICAL, AND EXPLANATORY,

AND

A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

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

APPENDIX

TO

THE FABLES.

This Appendix contains the Original Tales of Chaucer, which Dryden has modernized. The Novels of Boccacio are subjoined to the several Poetical English Versions.

The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 12

About This Book

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 12

THE
WORKS
OF
JOHN DRYDEN.

CONTENTS
OF
VOLUME TWELFTH.

APPENDIX

TO

THE FABLES.

THE
KNIGHTES TALE,
BY
GEOFFREY CHAUCER.

The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 12

About This Book

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 12

THE WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME TWELFTH.

APPENDIX TO THE FABLES.

THE KNIGHTES TALE, BY GEOFFREY CHAUCER.

THE
WORKS
OF
JOHN DRYDEN.

CONTENTS
OF
VOLUME TWELFTH.

APPENDIX

TO

THE FABLES.

THE
KNIGHTES TALE,
BY
GEOFFREY CHAUCER.