Pax Gulielmi Aufpiciis Europæ reddita, 1697, 109 Barometri Defcriptio, 118 ΠΥΓΜΑΙΟ-ΓΕΡΑΝΟΜΑΧΙΑ, five Prælium inter Pygmæos & grues commiffum, Refurrectio delineata ad Altare Col. Madg. Oxon,

Sphærifterium,

122

130

136

Ad D. D. Hannes, infigniffimum Medicum et
Poetam,
Machinæ Gesticulantes, Anglice A Puppet-Show,

140

143

Ad Infigniffimum Virum D. Tho. Burnettum, Sacræ Theoriæ Telluris Autorem,

148

To Sir Godfrey Kneller, on his Picture of the
King,
Prologue to Phædra and Hippolitus. Spoken by

Mr. Wilks,

151

155

Phaeton's Sifters transform'd into Trees, 190 -The Tranformation of Cycnus into a Swan, 193 -The Story of Calisto,

-The Story of Coronis and Birth of Æfculapius,

-Ocyrrhöe transform'd to a Mare,

195

203

209.

The Transformation of Battus to a Touchstone,

212

The

The Story of Aglauros, transformed into a

Statue,

-Europa's Rape,

213

221

Ovid's Metamorphofes. Book 3. The Story of Cadmus,

225

-The Transformation of A&tæon into a stag, 234
The Birth of Bacchus,

240

The Story of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, from the Fourth Book of Ovid's Metamorphofes, 268 Notes on fome of the foregoing Stories in Ovid's Metamorphofes,

An Efay on Virgil's Georgics,

275

297

POEMS

POEMS

ON

SEVERAL OCCASIONS.

VOL. I.

B

To Mr. DRYDEN.

WOW long, great poet, fhall thy facred lays

How long,

Provoke our wonder, and tranfcend our

Can neither injuries of time, or age,

[praife?

Damp thy poetic heat, and quench thy rage?

Not fo thy Ovid in his exile wrote,

[thought

Grief chill'd his breaft, and check'd his rifing

Penfive and fad, his drooping Mufe betrays
The Roman genius in its laft decays.

Prevailing warmth has ftill thy mind poffeft,
And fecond youth is kindled in thy breast;
Thou mak'ft the beauties of the Romans known,
And England boafts of riches not her own;
Thy lines have heighten'd Virgil's majefty,

· And Horace wonders at himself in thee.
Thou teachest Perfius to inform our isle
In smoother numbers, and a clearer style;
And Juvenal, inftructed in thy page,
Edges his fatire, and improves his rage.
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