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The POETS of GREAT BRITAIN

COMPLETE FROM
CHAUCER to CHURCHILL.

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London Printed for John Bell British Library Strand Feb161787..

V

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 over all.

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 firfi to dyftylle and rayne

The gold dewe dropys of fpeche and eloquence

Into our tunge thrugh his excellence.

The honour of English tong is dede---

My mayfter CHAUCER, floure of eloquence,
Mirrour of fructuous entendement,

Univerfel fadir in fcience---

This londis verray trefour and richeffe---

The firfte fynder of our fayre langage.

LYDGATE.

OCCLEVE.

Venerabil! CHAUCER, principall poete but pere,
Hevinly trumpet, orlege and regulere,

In eloquence balme, condict and diall,
Mylky fountane, clere ftrand, and rois riall,

Of frefche endite throw Albioun iland braid.

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

That raife in Brittane evir, quha reidis right
Thou beiris of Makers the triumphs royall,
The frefche enamitt termes celeftiall:
This mater couth haif illuminit full bricht,
Was thou nocht, of our Inglis all the light,
Surmounting every toung terrestriall
Astaras Mayi's morrow dois midnight.

VOL. XIII.

EDINBURG:

DOUGLAS.

DUNBAR.

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

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