PO E T I CAL
WORKS

ALEXANDER POPE, Esq.

VOLUME

II.

CON TA IN I N G

TRANSLATIONS, IMITATIONS,
EPISTLES, EPIT A PH S, &c.

LOND ON:

PRINTED FOR J. FRENCH, No. 47, Opposite

Hatton-Garden, Holborn,

M. DCCLXXVII.

CO N T E N T S

OF THE

SECOND VOLUME.

Page

The Temple of Fame.

S

JANUARY and May, from Chaucer

33

The Wire of Bath, from Chaucer

61

The First Book of Statius's Thebais

77

The Fable of Dryope, from Ovid's Metamorpho-

ses

109

VERTUMNUS and POMONA, from Ovid's Meta-

morphoses.

113

IMITATIONS of ENGLISH POETS.

119.

1. Of CHAUCER

II. Of Spencer, The Alley

I21

III. Of WALLER, On a Lady singing to her lute 124

On a fan of the author's design, in which

was painted the story of CEPHALUS

and Procris, with the Motto, AURA

VENI

125

IV. Of Cowley. The GARDEN

126

-WEEPING

128

V. Of the E. of Rochester, on SILENCE 129

VI. Of the E. of DorseT, ARTEMISIA 132

PHRYNE

134