ABSTRACT

Date and publication. Printed in 1685 in Sylvae (S R 10 January; advertised in The Observator 1 January); reprinted 1692; reprinted as an appendix to Creech’s Lucretius . . . and Manilius . . . Translated (1700). For the likely date of composition see headnote to ‘Preface to Sylvae*.