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POETICAL WORKS

OF

GEOFF. CHAUCER.

IN FOURTEEN VOLUMES.

THE MISCELLANEOUS PIECES

From Urry's Edition 1721,

THE CANTERBURY TALES

From Tyrwhitt's Edition 1775.

Grete well CHAUCER whan ye mete--..

Of ditees and of fonges glade,

The which he---made,

The londe fullfilled is overall.

GOWER.

My maifter CHAUCER---chiefe poete of Bretayne----
Whom all this londe fchulde of ryght preferre,

Sith of our langage he was the lode-fierre---.
That made firft to dyftyfle and rayne

The gold dewe dropys of fpeche and eloquence
Into our tunge thrugh his excellence.

The honour of English tong is dede-.-.
My may fler CHAUCER, floure of eloquence,
Mirrour of fructuous entendement,
Univerfel fadir in science----

This londis verray trefour and richesse-...

The firfte fynder of our fayre langage.

LYDGATE,

OCCLEVE.

Venerabill CHAUCER, principall poete but pere,
Hevinly trumpet, orlege and regulere,

In eloquence balme, condict and diall,
Mylky fountane, clete firand, and rois riall,
Of frefche endite throw aliopa iland braid.

O reverend CHAUCER! rofe of rethouris all,
As in oure toung flourimperial

That raife in Brittane evir quta reidis right
Thou beiris of Makers the triumphs royall,
The frefche enamilt termes celeftiall:
This mater couth haif illuminit full bricht,
Was thou pocht, of our Inglis all the light,
Surmounting every toung terreftriall
As far as Mayi's morrow dois midnight.

VOL. I.

EDINBURG:

DOUGLAS.

DUNBAR.

AT THE Apollo Prels, BY THE MARTINS.
Anno 1782.

POETICAL WORKS

OF

GEOFFREY CHAUCER..

LIFE, with

PREFACES,

VOL. I.

CONTAINING HIS

ACCOUNT OF HIS WORKS,
TESTIMONIES OF AUTHORS

INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSES, li CONCERNING HIM,

But natheles certain

c. c. c.

I can right now no thrifty Tale fain,
But CHAUCER, (though he can but lewedly
On metres and on riming craftily)

Hath fayd hem in fwiche English as he can
Of olde time, as knoweth many a man ;
And if he have not fayd hem, leve brother,

In book, he hath fayd hem in another----

Who fo that wol his large Volume feke. TALES, ver. 4465.
Dan CHAUCER, well of Englifa undefil'd,

On Fame's eternal bead-roll worthy to be fil'd----
Old Dan Geffrey, in whofe gentle spright
The pure well-head of poetry did dweli....
He whilft he lived was the foveraigne head
Of thepherds all

Old CHAUCER, like the morning flar,
To us difcovers day fromfar;

His light thofe mifts and clouds diffolv'd
Which our dark nation-long involv'd;
But he defcending to the fhades

SPENSER.

Darkucfs again the age invades.

DENHAM.

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AT THE Apollo Press, BY THE MARTINS.
Anno 1782.

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