Fables ancient and modern / translated into verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer, with orginal poems, by Mr. Dryden.

Author/creator Dryden, John
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon : Printed for Jacob Tonson ..., MDCC [1700]
Description[42], 646 [i.e. 558], [2] p.
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Other author/creatorOvid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.
Other author/creatorChaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Other author/creatorBoccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Other author/creatorHomer.
SeriesEarly English books online. ^A888680
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.
General noteIn verse.
General noteHalf title page reads : Mr. Dryden's fables.
General note"To His Grace the Duke of Ormond" signed: John Dryden.
General noteError in paging: p. 272-359 omitted.
General noteReproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.
References Wing D2278.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1503:7)
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