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 TONSON at Shakespear's
Head over-against Katharine Street in
the Strand. M DCC XVL

To His GRACE the

DUKE of Newcastle.

My LORD,

IS under Your Aufpice that this Collection now appears. For who is fo proper to Patronise fome Pieces not unworthy of Virgil and Horace, as Mecanas? Not only * A

Your