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J. Tonson
Language
English
Pages
646

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Subjects
Fables, Translations into English, Classical Mythology, Poetry
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Ovid (43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D), Homer, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)

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Table of Contents

Dedication. - The preface. - Poem to Her Grace the dutchess of Ormond, with the following story from Chaucer: Palamon and Arcite: or, The knight's tale. - To my honoured kinsman John Driden. - Meleager and Attalanta, out of Ovid's Metamorphoses. - Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccace. - Bauris and Philemon; Pigmalion and the statue; Ciniras and Myrrha; out of Ovid's Metamorphoses. - The first book of Homer's Ilias. - The cock and the fox; or, The tale of the nun's priest, from Chaucer. - Theodore and Honoria, from Boccace. - Ceyxe and Alcyone, out of Ovid's Metamorphoses. - The flower and the leaf: or, The lady in the arbor. A vision out of Chaucer. - Alexander's feast: or, The power of musick. An ode in honour of St. Cecilia. - The twelfth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses wholly translated. - The speeches of Ajax and Ulysses, from Ovid's Metamorphoses. - The wife of Bath, her tale, from Chaucer. - Of the Pythagorean phylosophy, from Ovid's Metamorphoses. - The character of a good parson imitated, from Chaucer, and enlarged.
- The monument of a fair maiden lady, who dy'd at the Bath, and is there interr'd. - Aymon and Iphegnia, from Boccace. - The knight's tale; The tale of the nun's priest; The floure and the leafe; The wife of Bathe's tale; as written by Chaucer.

Edition Notes

Detached from: The works of Mr. John Dryden. The third volume ... London, 1701.

Page numbers 272-359 omitted.

Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, inc., 1970. 1 microfiche : positive ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 11096)

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Library of English literature -- LEL 11096.

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Microform
Pagination
[36], 646 [i.e. 558], [2] p.
Number of pages
646

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OL13560363M
OCLC/WorldCat
6506065

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