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Author Dryden, John, 1631-1700.

Title Fables ancient and modern [microform] / translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer: with original poems. By Mr. Dryden ...

Imprint London : J. Tonson, 1700.

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 Axe Basement Library of English Literature Microfiche Cabinets  LEL 11096    ---  Available
Description [36], 646 [i.e. 558], [2] p.
Series Library of English literature ; LEL 11096
Note Detached from: The works of Mr. John Dryden. The third volume ... London, 1701.
Page numbers 272-359 omitted.
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.
Reproduction Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, inc., 1970. 1 microfiche : positive ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 11096)
Note s 1970 ilu n
Added Author Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses. Selections. English.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Homer.

 
    
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