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Poems 1697-1699 Alexander's Feast; or the Power of Musique. An Ode, InHonour of St. Cecilia's Day To Mr. Granville, on his Excellent Tragedy,call'd Heroick Love To my Friend, the Author [Peter Motteux] FABLES ANCIENTAND MODERN; TRANSLATED INTO VERSE, FROM HOMER, OVID, BOCCACE, & CHAUCER: WITHORIGINAL POEMS To His Grace the Duke of Ormond Preface To Her Grace theDutchess of Ormond Palamon and Arcite: or, The Knight's Tale From Chaucer. InThree Books To My Honour'd Kinsman, John Driden, of Chesterton in the Countyof Huntingdon, Esquire Meleager and Atalanta, Out of the Eighth Book ofOvid's Metamorphoses Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccace Baucis andPhilemon, Out of the Eighth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses Pygmalion and theStatue, Out of the Tenth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses Cinyras and Myrrha, Outof the Tenth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses The First Book of Homer's Ilias TheCock and the Fox: Or, The Tale of the Nun's Priest, From Chaucer Theodore andHonoria, from Boccace Ceyx and Alcyone, Out of the Tenth Book of Ovid'sMetamorphoses The Flower and the Leaf; Or, The Lady in the Arbour. A VisionThe Twelfth Book of Ovid his Metamorphoses, Wholly Translated The Speeches ofAjax and Ulysses, From Ovid's Metamorphoses Book XIII The Wife of Bath HerTale Of the Pythagorean Philosophy From Ovid's Metamorphoses Book XV TheCharacter of a Good Parson; Imitated from Chaucer, and Inlarg'd The Monumentof a Fair Maiden Lady, Who dy'd at Bath, and is there Interr'd Cymon andIphigenia, from Boccace POSTHUMOUS PIECES AND MISCELLANY From Covent GardenDrollery, 1672 Prologue to Julius Ceasar Epitaphs In Obitum Johannis SmithiiOn the Monument of the Marquis of Winchester Epitaph of Sir Palmes FairborneUpon Young Mr. Rogers of Gloucestershire Epitaph on Mrs. Margaret Paston ofBarningham in Norfolk Epitaph on Erasmus Lawton Impromtus Epigram on JacobTonson Lines to Mrs. Elizabeth Creed From A New Collection of Poems, 1701 TheFair Stranger From Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part, 1704 On the Deathof Amyntas: A Pastoral Elegy A Song ("Fair, sweet and young") From Ovid'sMetamorphoses, 1717 AEsacus Transform'd into a Cormorant Commentary TextualNotes Appendixes Index to the Commentary