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The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 13

Note 11 — TRANSLATIONS FROM JUVENAL.

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Dryden's recollection seems here deficient. There is, no doubt, a close imitation of the Iliad throughout the Jerusalem; but the death of the Swedish Prince was so far from being the motive of Rinaldo's return to the wars, that Rinaldo seems never to have heard either of that person or of his fate until he was delivered from the garden of Armida, and on his voyage to join Godfrey's army.

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