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Or fpreads his fubtle nets from fight
With twinkling glasses, to betray
The larks that in the meshes light,

Or makes the fearful hare his prey.
Amidst his harmless easy joys

No anxious care invades his health,
Nor love his peace of mind destroys,
Nor wicked avarice of wealth.
But if a chafte and pleasing wife,
To ease the business of his life,
Divides with him his houfhold care,
Such as the Sabine matrons were,
Such as the swift Apulian's bride,
Sun-burnt and fwarthy though the be,

Will fire for winter-nights provide,
And without noife will overfee
His children and his family;
And order all things till he come,
Sweaty and overlabour'd, home;
If the in pens his flocks will fold,

And then produce her dairy ftore,
With wine to drive away the cold,

And unbought dainties of the poor; Not oyfters of the Lucrine lake

My fober appetite would wish, Nor turbot, or the foreign fishThat rolling tempefts overtake,

And hither waft the coftly dish. Not heathpout, or the rarer bird,

Which Phafis or Ionia yields,

More

More pleafing morfels would afford

Than the fat olives of my fields Than fhards or mallows for the pot,

That keep the loosen'd body found,
Or than the lamb, that falls by lot

To the just guardian of my ground.
Amidst these feasts of happy fwains,
The jolly fhepherd smiles to fee
His flock returning from the plains;
The farmer is as pleas'd as he
To view his oxen fweating fmoke,
Bear on their necks the loofen'd yoke :
To look upon his menial crew,

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That fit around his chearful hearth,

And bodies spent in toil renew

With wholesome food and country mirth.
This Morecraft faid within himself,

Refolv'd to leave the wicked town:
And live retir'd upon his own,

He call'd his money in ;

He

But the prevailing love of pelf,
Soon split him on the former shelf,
it out again.

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The Twelfth Book of Ovid's Metamorphofes

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TRANSLATIONS from HOMER.

The First Book of Homer's Ilias

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The laft Parting of Hector and Andromache, from the Sixth Book of the Iliad

267

277

Preface concerning Mr. Dryden's Translations

TRANSLATIONS from THEOCRITUS.

Amaryllis; or, the Third Idyllium of Theocritus

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The Epithalamium of Helen and Menelaus

The Defpairing Lover

TRANSLATIONS from LUCRETIUS.

The Beginning of the First Book of Lucretius
The Beginning of the Second Book of Lucretius
From the Fifth Book of Lucretius

TRANSLATIONS from HORACE.

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The Third Ode of the First Book of Horace
The Ninth Ode of the First Book of Horace

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325

The Twenty-ninth Ode of the First Book of Horace 327

The Second Epode of Horace

334

END OF VOL. IV.

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