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OVID's

METAMORPHOSES.


BOOK XII.


Translated by Mr. Dryden.

The Trojan War.

PRIAM, to whom the Story was unknown,
As dead, deplor'd his Metamorphos'd Son:
A Cenotaph his Name, and Title kept,
And Hector round the Tomb, with all his Brothers wept.
This pious Office Paris did not share,
Absent alone; and Author of the War,

Which,