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

Abstract

In 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.