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.