Fables ancient and modern; : translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer: with orginal poems·
John Dryden, Ovid, Geoffrey Chaucer, Giovanni Boccaccio, Jacob Tonson (Bookseller), Homer
Print Book, English, MDCC. [1700]
printed for Jacob Tonson, within Gray's Inn Gate next Gray's Inn Lane, London :, MDCC. [1700]
Early works
[42], 271, 360-646, p. 565, [1] p. ; 34 cm (fol.)
228732415
Dedication
The preface
Poem to Her Grace the Dutchess of Ormond, with the following story of Palamon and Arcite, from Chaucer
Palamon and Arcite, or, The Knight's tale
To my honoured kinsman John Driden of Chesterton, in the county of Huntington, Esq;
Meleager and Attalanta, out of the eighth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses
Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccace
Bauris and Philemon, out of the eighth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses
Pigmalion and the statue, out of the tenth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses
Ciniras and Myrrha, out of the tenth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses
The first book of Homer's Ilias
The cock and the fox, or, The tale of the Nun's Priest, from Chaucer
Theodore and Honoria, from Boccace
Ceyxe and Alcyone, out of the tenth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses
The flower and the leaf, or, The lady in the arbor / A vision out of Chaucer
Alexander's feast, or, The power of musick. An ode in honour of St. Cecilia
The twelfth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses wholly translated
The speeches of Ajax and Ulysses, from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book the thirteenth
The wife of Bath, her tale, from Chaucer
Of the Pythagorean phylosophy, from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book the fifteenth
The character of a good parson imitated, from Chaucer, and enlarged
The monument of a fair maiden lady, who dy'd at the Bath, and is there interr'd
Cymon and Iphegnia, from Boccace
The knight's tale
The tale of the nun's priest
The floure and the leafe
The wife of Bathe's tale
Half-title reads: Mr Dryden's fables
In verse
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