Fables ancient and modern;
translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer: with original poems. By Mr. Dryden ...

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Main Author

Dryden, John, 1631-1700.

Related Names

Homer.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.

Language(s)

English

Published

London, Printed for Jacob Tonson ... 1721.

Note

--The flower and the leaf: or, The lady in the arbour [from Chaucer]--Alexander's feast; or, The power of musick.--Ovid's Metamorphoses (bk. XII) wholly translated.--The speeches of Ajax and Ulysses: from the thirteenth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.--The wife of Bath her tale [from Chaucer]--Of the Pythagorean philosophy. From the fifteenth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.--The character of a good parson; imitated from Chaucer.--The monument of a fair maiden lady, who dy'd at Bath.--Cymon and Iphigenia, from Boccace.
Bound in calf.
Signatures: A-R¹² (A₁, frontispiece)
Third edition.

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29 p. l., 345, [2] p. front. 17 cm.

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