ABSTRACT
Date and publication. First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (1704). It is not known when the poem was composed, but it may date from the early 1690s, when D. was engaged in other translations from Ovid (see David Hopkins, RES n.s. xxxix (1988) 64–74, li (2000) 83–9, and headnotes to ‘Dedication to EP’ and ‘Ovid’s Art of Love, Book 1’). The present text is based on 1704 with paragraphing added at l. 25.
