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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 be---made,

The londe full filled 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-fterre----
That made firft 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 mayfler CHAUCER, floure of eloquence,
Mirrour of fructuous entendement,
Univerfel fadir in fcience----

LYDGATE.

This londis verray trefour and richeffe---

The firfte fynder of our fayre langage.

OCCLEVE.

Venerabill CHAUCER, principall poete but pere,

Hevinly trumpet, orlege a. d regulere,

In eloquence balme, conditt and diall,
Mylky fountane, clere ftrand, and ro's 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 enamilt termes celeftiall:
This mater couth haif illuminit full bricht,
Was thou nocht, of our Inglis all the light,
Surmounting every toung terrestrial!
As far as Mayi's morrow dois midnight.

VOL. V.

EDINBURG:

DOUGLAS.

DUNBAR.

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

CANTERBURY TALES, viz.

THE NONNESPREESTESTALE, THE MANCIPLES TALE,
THE SECOND NONNESTALE, THE PERSONES TALE,

THECHAN.YEMANNESTALE,

But natheles certain

c. &c. &c.

1 can right now no thrifty Tale fain,

But CHAUCER, (though he can but fewedly

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 h other,

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

Who fo that wol his large Volume feke. TALES, ver. 4465.
Dan CHAUCER, well of English undeal'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 dwell----
He whilst he lived was the foveraigne head
Of thepherds All-------

Old CHAUCER, like the rorr irg fta",
To us difcovers day from far

His light thofe mifts and clouds diffolvid
Which nur dark nation long involv'd;"
But ne defcending to the fhades

Darknefs again the age invades.

SPENSER.

DENHAM.

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