's fault,
"Unless beheld, refuses to believe.
"When next Aurora bade the darkness fly
"I sally'd forth, and sought th' accustomed wood:
"Then tir'd with conquest, on the grass I stretch'd,
"And,--come, dear Aura, ease my pain,--I cry'd
"Sudden a mournful sigh betwixt my words
"I heard, but still proceeded,--dearest, come!--
"Again the falling leaves a rustling sound
"Causing, a savage beast I thought lay hid,
"And hurl'd my faithful dart. Procris was there!
"And as her tender breast the blow receiv'd
"Alas! she cry'd.--My faithful spouse's voice
"I knew, and with distracted speed I ran;
"Half-dead I found her, all her robes distain'd
"With flowing blood,--and dragging from the wound,
"Ah, me!--her fatal gift. My guilty arms,
"Her body, dearer far than mine, support;
"My vest I rend, the cruel gash to bind,
"And check the gushing blood; I fearful pray,
"She will not leave me guilty of her fate.
"She now, her strength fast wasting, dying fast,
"These words to utter try'd:--Suppliant I beg,
"By all the oaths that form'd our nuptial ties;
"By all the gods and goddesses above;
"By all my actions which have given you joy;
"By that strong love which thus my fate has caus'd,
"Which now in death my bosom still retains,
"Let not this Aura to my bed succeed.--
"She said,--too late I learn'd, too late I told
"The error of the name; for what avail'd!
"She sinks, her small remaining strength is fled,
"Her last blood flows. While ought she seems to view,
"On me she bends her eyes; her hapless soul
"My lips inhale, yet pleas'd her brow appears
"In death, more calm from what I just explain'd."
Thus grieving, Cephalus concludes, and all
His audience with him weep. When, lo! appear
King AEaecus, his sons, and troops new-rais'd;
Whom Cephalus, in warlike strength, receives.

END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

_Macdonald & Bailey, Printers, Harris's Place,
Oxford-Street._

THE
METAMORPHOSES
OF
PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO
IN
*English Blank Verse*

Translated by
J. J. HOWARD

VOL. II.

[Illustration]

*The Eighth Book.*

Nisus betrayed to Minos by his daughter Scylla; changed to a
falcon, and Scylla to a lark. Return of Minos to Crete. The
Minotaur and labyrinth. Flight of Daedalus and Icarus. Change of
Perdix to a partridge. Chase and death of the Calydonian boar, by
Meleager and Atalanta. Mur