Miscellany Poems.

Containing Variety of New

TRANSLATIONS

OF THE

ANCIENT POETS:

Together with Several

ORIGINAL POE MS.

By the Most Eminent Hands.

Publish'd by Mr. DRYDEN.

Et vos, O Lauri, carpam, d Te, Proxima Myrte:
Sic pofitæ quoniam suaveis miscetis 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 XVI.

To His GRACE the

Duke of Newcastle.

My LORD,

IS under Your Aua spice that this Collection now appears.

For who is so proper to Patronise some Pieces not unworthy of Virgil and Horace, as Mecenas? Not only * A

Your