Excerpt from The Works of the English Poets, Vol. 2: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical; The Poems of Cowley, Volume II Written in praife of Theron, prince of Agrigentum (a famous city in Sicily, built by his ancefiors) who, in the {eventy-feventh Olympic, won the chariot-prize. He is commended from the nobility of his race (whol'e fiory is ofen toucht on) 5 from his great riches (an ordinary common-place in Pindar) 5 from his hofpita lity, munificence, and other virtues. The Ode (ac cording to the confiant cufiom of the Poet) confifis more in digreflions, than in the main fmbjeet: and the Reader mull not be choqued to hear him {peak (0 often of his own Mute; for that is a liberty which. This kind of poetry can hardly live without. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.