Miscellany Poems.

Containing Variety of New

TRANSLATIONS

OF THE

ANCIENT POETS:

Together with Several

ORIGINAL POEMS.

By the Moft Eminent Hands.
Publish'd by Mr. DRYDEN.

Et vos, O Lauri, carpam, & Te, Proxima Myrte :
Sic pofita quoniam fuaveis mifcetis odores. Virg. Ecl. 2.

The FOURTH EDITION.

LONDON:

Printed for JACOB TONS ON at Shakespear's
Head over-against Katharine Street in
the Strand. M DCC XVI.

To His GRACE the

DUKE of Newcastle.

My LORD,

IS under Your Auspice that this Collection now appears. For who is fo proper

to Patronise fome Pieces not unworthy of Virgil and Horace, as Mecænas? Not only