02432nam 2200421Ia 450 99638702170331620200824132709.0(CKB)1000000000614076(EEBO)2240956957(OCoLC)ocm12289966e(OCoLC)12289966(EXLCZ)99100000000061407619850722d1700 uy |engurbn||||a|bb|Fables ancient and modern[electronic resource] /translated into verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer, with orginal poems, by Mr. DrydenLondon Printed for Jacob Tonson ...MDCC [1700][42], 646 [i.e. 558], [2] pIn 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.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.eebo-0014Dryden John1631-1700.166214Ovid43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.154954Chaucer Geoffreyd. 1400.165781Boccaccio Giovanni1313-1375.148906Homer155559EAIEAIUMIWaOLNBOOK996387021703316Fables ancient and modern1886649UNISA