Produced by Larry B. Harrison, Les Galloway and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Transcriber’s Notes Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. All other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged. Italics are represented thus _italic_. The titles have various decorative borders. These have not been shown. POETICAL WORKS of ROBERT BRIDGES Volume VI [Publisher’s device] London Smith, Elder & Co. 15 Waterloo Place 1905 OXFORD: HORACE HART PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY _POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BRIDGES_ _VOLUME THE SIXTH CONTAINING_ _THE FEAST OF BACCHUS_ _p._ 1 _SECOND PART OF THE HISTORY OF NERO_ 123 _NOTES_ 275 LIST OF PREVIOUS EDITIONS _FEAST OF BACCHUS._ 1. _THE FEAST OF BACCHUS. By Robert Bridges. Privately printed by H. Daniel: Oxford, 1889. Small 4to 2. _THE F.O.B. A Comedy in the Latin manner and partly translated from Terence. By Robert Bridges. Published by Geo. Bell & Sons, Covent Garden, and J. & E. Bumpus, Lim., Holborn Bars. 4to. [1894.]_ _NERO._ 1. _NERO. Part 2. From the death of Burrus to the death of Seneca, comprising the conspiracy of Piso. Published by Geo. Bell & Sons, and F. & E. Bumpus. [1894.]_ THE FEAST OF BACCHUS A COMEDY IN THE LATIN MANNER & PARTLY TRANSLATED FROM TERENCE DRAMATIS PERSONÆ _MENEDEMUS_ _an Athenian gentleman_. _CHREMES_ _a retired Ionian sponge-merchant_. _CLINIA_ _son to Menedemus_. _PAMPHILUS_ _son to Chremes_. _PHILOLACHES_ _an actor, friend to Pamphilus_. _SOSTRATA_ _wife to Chremes_. _ANTIPHILA_ _daughter of Chremes, beloved of Clinia_. _GORGO_ _beloved of Pamphilus_. _The scene is in a suburb of Athens, opposite the house of Chremes (L): on the other side is Menedemus’ garden (R): this occupies most of the back of the stage: a gate from the garden gives on the stage: between the garden and Chremes’ house a road runs down to the city._