Fables ancient and modern
Subtitle: translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace and Chaucer: with original poems
By: by John Dryden Esq
Contributors: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.; Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375; Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400; Homer; Foulis, Robert, 1707-1776, printer; Foulis, Andrew, -1775, printer; Chambers, Robert, Sir, 1737-1803, former owner; Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library)
Publisher: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis
Published: 1771
Place of publication: Glasgow
Language: eng
Translated from: und
Notes: Gaskell, Philip. Foulis Press, 525

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Table of contents: title: v. 1. Dedication to His Grace the Duke of Ormond. The preface. Poem to Her Grace the Dutchess of Ormond. Palamon and Arcite, or, The Knight's tale, from Chaucer. To my honoured kinsman John Dryden of Chesterton. Meleager and Atalanta, out of the eighth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccace. Baucis and Philemon, out of the eighth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Pygmalion and the statute, out of the tenth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Cinyras and Myrrha, out of the tenth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Homer's Ilias.; title: v. 2. The cock and the fox, or, The tale of the nun's priest, from Chaucer. Theodore and Honoria, from Boccace. Ceyx and Alcyone, out of the tenth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. The flower and the leaf: or, The lady in the arbour, a vision out of Chaucer. Alexander's feast: or, The power of music. The twelfth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses wholly translated. The speeches of Ajax and Ulysses, from Ovid's Metamorphoses. The wife of Bath, her tale, from Chaucer. Of the Pythagorean philosophy, from Ovid's Metamorphoses. The character of a good parson imitated, from Chaucer, and enlarged. The monument of a fair maiden lady, who dy'd at the Bath. Cymon and Iphigenia, from Boccace.