THE

BRITISH POETS.

VOL. XI.

BIBLIOTHÈQUE
DE L'UNIVERSITÉ
DE GAND.

EDINBURGH!

Printed for A. KINCAID and W. CREECH,

and J. BALFOUR.

M, DCC, LXXIII.

Nunc ultro ad cineres ipfius et offa parentis

(Haud equidem fine mente, reor, fine numine divum)
Adfumus. VIRG. En. lib. 5.

EDINBURGH:

Printed for A. KINCAID and W. CREECH,

and J. BALFOUR.

M, DCC, LXXIII.

CONTENTS.

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Edication to his Grace the Duke of Ormond

The Preface

Poem to her Grace the Dutchefs of Ormond, with

the following story of Palamon and Arcite,

from Chaucer

Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight's Tale,

from Chaucer. Book the first

The fecond book

The third book

To my honoured kinsman John Dryden of Chef-
terton, in the county of Huntingdon, Efq;

Meleager and Atalanta, out of the eighth book of

Ovid's Metamorphofes

Sigifmonda and Guifcardo, from Boccace

Baucis and Philemon, out of the eighth book of

Ovid's Metamorphofes

Pygmalion and the Statue, out of the tenth book

of Ovid's Metamorphofes

Cinyras and Myrrha, out of the tenth book of

Ovid's Metamorphofes

The first book of Homer's Ilias

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