An edition of Fables ancient and modern: translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer : with original poems
(1700)
Fables ancient and modern
by John Dryden
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1700, Printed for Jacob Tonsen
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Table of Contents
Preface
To Her Grace the Dutchess of Ormonde
Palamon and Arcite ... from Chaucer
To my honour'd kinsman John Driden
Meleager and Atalanta ... Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccace
Baucis and Philemon ... Pygmalion and the statue ... Cinyras and myrrhas, The first book of Homer's Ilias
The cock and the fox ... from Chaucer
Theodore and Honoria, from Boccace
Ceyx and Alcyone
The flower and the leaf ... Mr. Dryden's ode in honour of St. Cecilia's Day, 1697
The twelfth book of Ovid his Metamorphoses ... The speeches of Ajax and Ulysses, ... The wife of Bath, her tale
Of the Pythagorean philosophy ... The character of a good parson / imitated from Chaucer and inlarg'd
The monument of a fair maiden lady ... Cymon and Iphigenia, from Boccace
The knight's tale / ... written by Geffrey Chaucer
The tale of the nun's priest / ... written by Geffrey Chaucer
The floure and the leafe / ... written by Geffrey Chaucer
The wife of Bathe's tale / ... written by Geffrey Chaucer
Edition Notes
In verse
Half title page reads : Mr. Dryden's fables
"To His Grace the Duke of Ormond" signed: John Dryden
Error in paging: p. 272-359 omitted
Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library
Wing D2278
Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1984. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1503:7)
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