Fables ancient and modern translated into verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer, with orginal poems, by Mr. Dryden.
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- Fables ancient and modern translated into verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer, with orginal poems, by Mr. Dryden.
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- Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
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- TO HIS GRACE THE Duke of Ormond.
- PREFACE.
- TO HER GRACE THE DUTCHESS OF ORMOND, With the following POEM of Palamon and Arcite, FROM CHAUCER.
- PALAMON AND ARCITE: OR, The Knight's Tale, FROM CHAUCER. In Three Books.
- PALAMON AND ARCITE: OR, The Knight's Tale. BOOK II.
- PALAMON AND ARCITE: OR, The Knight's Tale. BOOK III.
- TO MY Honour'd Kinsman, JOHN DRIDEN, OF CHESTERTON IN THE COUNTY OF HUNTINGDON, ESQUIRE.
- MELEAGER AND ATALANTA, Out of the Eighth Book OF OVID'S Metamorphosis.
- SIGISMONDA AND GUISCARDO, FROM BOCCACE.
- BAUCIS AND PHILEMON, Out of the Eighth Book OF OVID'S Metamorphoses.
- PYGMALION AND THE STATUE, Out of the Tenth Book OF OVID'S Metamorphoses.
- CINYRAS AND MYRRHA, Out of the Tenth Book 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.
- CEYX AND ALCYONE.
- THE Flower and the Leaf: OR, THE LADY IN THE ARBOUR. A VISION.
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Mr.
DRYDEN's ODE In HONOUR of St. CECILIA's Day. 1697. - THE Twelfth BOOK OF OVID HIS METAMORPHOSES, Wholly Translated.
- THE SPEECHES OF AJAX AND ULYSSES. FROM Ovid's Metamorphoses BOOK XIII.
- THE WIFE OF BATH HER TALE.
- OF THE PYTHAGOREAN PHILOSOPHY. FROM Ovid's Metamorphoses BOOK XV.
- THE CHARACTER OF A Good Parson; Imitated from CHAUCER, And Inlarg'd.
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THE MONUMENT OF A Fair Maiden Lady, Who dy'd at
Bath, and is there Interr'd. - CYMON AND IPHIGENIA, FROM BOCCACE.
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THE KNIGHT'S TALE, As it was Written BY
GEFFREY CHAUCER. - THE TALE OF THE Nun's Priest.
- THE FLOURE AND THE LEAFE.
- THE WIFE OF BATHE'S TALE.
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