-The Death of Pentheus, The Story of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, from the Fourth Book of Ovid's Metamorphofes, 236 239 245 247 Notes on fome of the foregoing Stories in Ovid's Meta morphofes, 253 An Effay on Virgil's Georgics, 274 POEMS To Mr. DRYDEN. OW long, great Poet, fhall thy facred lays Ho Provoke our wonder, and tranfcend our praise ? Can neither injuries of time, or age, Damp thy poetic heat, and quench thy rage? Not fo thy Ovid in his exile wrote, Grief chill'd his breaft, and check'd his rifing thought: Penfive and fad, his drooping mufe betrays The Roman genius in its laft decays. Prevailing warmth has ftill thy mind poffeft, Now Now Ovid boafts th' advantage of thy fong, How wild Lycaon chang'd by angry gods, And frighted at himself, ran howling through the woods. Nor age, nor fickness interrupt thy fong: A nobler change than he himself can tell. Magd. College, Oxon. EXI A POEM |