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---- Sith of our langage he was the lode-fierre---. The gold dewe dropys of fpeche and eloquence The honour of English tong is dede-.-. This londis verray trefour and richesse-... The firfte fynder of our fayre langage. LYDGATE, OCCLEVE. Venerabill CHAUCER, principall poete but pere, In eloquence balme, condict and diall, O reverend CHAUCER! rofe of rethouris all, That raife in Brittane evir quta reidis right VOL. I. EDINBURG: DOUGLAS. DUNBAR. AT THE Apollo Prels, BY THE MARTINS. POETICAL WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER.. LIFE, with PREFACES, VOL. I. CONTAINING HIS ACCOUNT OF HIS WORKS, INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSES, li CONCERNING HIM, But natheles certain c. c. c. I can right now no thrifty Tale fain, Hath fayd hem in fwiche English as he can In book, he hath fayd hem in another---- Who fo that wol his large Volume feke. TALES, ver. 4465. On Fame's eternal bead-roll worthy to be fil'd---- Old CHAUCER, like the morning flar, His light thofe mifts and clouds diffolv'd SPENSER. Darkucfs again the age invades. DENHAM. AT THE Apollo Press, BY THE MARTINS. |