THE

WOR

OF

VIRGI L,

TRANSLATED INTO

ENGLISH VERSE

BY

MR. DRYDEN..

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED BY ALEX. LAWRIE & Co.

FOR J, FAIRBAIRN, AND ARCH. CONSTABLE & COMPANY,

TO THE

RIGHT HONOURABLE

HUGH LORD CLIFFORD,

BARON OF CHUDLEIGH.

I

MY LORD,

HAVE found it not more difficult to translate Virgil, than to find such patrons as I desire for my translation. For though England is not wanting in a learned nobility, yet such are my unhappy circumstances, that they have confined me to narrow choice. To the greater part I have not the honour to be known; and to some of them I cannot show at present, by any public act, that grateful respect which

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