Let th' Pagan-world your pious verse defy,
Yet shall they envy when they come to die,
Your wiser projects on eternity.
On Dr. Woodford's Paraphrase.] See above, [p. 306]. These lines appeared before A Paraphrase upon the Canticles, 1679, and were headed 'To my dear Old Friend, the Reverend Dr. Samuel Woodford, On his Sacred Poems'.
21 approve 1679, 1682: prove 1686.
25-7 Referring to the comic touches noted above.
Laodamia to Protesilaus.
one of ovid's epistles translated.
The Argument.