FABLES
Ancient and Modern;
Translated into VERSE,
FROM
Homer, Ovid,
Boccace, & Chaucer:
WITH
ORIGINAL POEMS
By Mr DRYDEN.
Nunc ultrò ad Cineres ipsius & ossa parentis
(Haud equidem sine mente, reor, sine numine divum)
Virg. Æn. lib. 5.Adsumus.
LONDON:
Printed for Jacob Tonson, within Gray's Inn Gate next
Gray's Inn Lane. MDCC.
| Dedication to His Grace the Duke of Ormond.
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| The Preface.
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| Poem to Her Grace the Dutchess of Ormond, with the following Story of Palamon and Arcite, from Chaucer.
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| Palamon and Arcite: or, the Knight's Tale, from Chaucer.
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| Book the First.
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Page 1
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| The Second Book
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25
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| The Third Book
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49
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| To my Honoured Kinsman, John Driden of Chesterton in the County of Huntingdon, Esq;
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91
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| Meleager and Attalanta, out of the Eighth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
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103
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| Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccace.
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121
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| Baucis and Philemon, out of the Eighth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
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153
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| Pigmalion and the Statue, out of the Tenth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
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165
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| Ciniras and Myrrha, out of the Tenth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
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173
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| The First Book of Homer's Ilias.
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189
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| The Cock and the Fox: or, the Tale of the Nun's Priest, from Chaucer.
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223
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| Theodore and Honoria, from Boccace.
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257
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| Ceyxe and Alcyone, out of the Tenth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
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361
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| The Flower and the Leaf: or, the Lady in the Arbor. A Vision out of Chaucer.
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383
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| Alexander's Feast; or, the Power of Musick. An Ode in Honour of St. Cecilia.
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409
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| The Twelfth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses wholly Translated.
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419
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| The Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses, from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book the Thirteenth.
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453
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| The Wife of Bath, her Tale, from Chaucer.
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479
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| Of the Pythagorean Phylosophy, from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book the Fifteenth.
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503
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| The Character of a Good Parson Imitated, from Chaucer, and enlarged.
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531
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| The Monument of a Fair Maiden Lady, who dy'd at the Bath, and is there Interr'd.
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537
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| Cymon and Iphegnia, from Boccace.
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541
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POSSIBLE MISSING ENTRIES
{{TOC row 2out-1|[[Fables Ancient and Modern (Dryden)/|
Mr. Dryden's Ode in Honour of St. Cecilia's Day. 1697.
Of the Pythagorean Philosophy.
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.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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