Fables ancient and modern
By: translated into verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer, with orginal poems, by Mr. Dryden
Contributors: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.; Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400; Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375; Homer
Series: Early English books online
Publisher: Printed for Jacob Tonson ...
Published: 1700
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 646
Notes: In verse.

Half title page reads : Mr. Dryden's fables.

"To His Grace the Duke of Ormond" signed: John Dryden.

Error in paging: p. 272-359 omitted.

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Table of contents: title: Preface; title: To Her Grace the Dutchess of Ormonde; title: Palamon and Arcite ... from Chaucer; title: To my honour'd kinsman John Driden; title: Meleager and Atalanta ... Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccace; title: Baucis and Philemon ... Pygmalion and the statue ... Cinyras and myrrhas, The first book of Homer's Ilias; title: The cock and the fox ... from Chaucer; title: Theodore and Honoria, from Boccace; title: Ceyx and Alcyone; title: The flower and the leaf ... Mr. Dryden's ode in honour of St. Cecilia's Day, 1697; title: The twelfth book of Ovid his Metamorphoses ... The speeches of Ajax and Ulysses, ... The wife of Bath, her tale; title: Of the Pythagorean philosophy ... The character of a good parson / imitated from Chaucer and inlarg'd; title: The monument of a fair maiden lady ... Cymon and Iphigenia, from Boccace; title: The knight's tale / ... written by Geffrey Chaucer; title: The tale of the nun's priest / ... written by Geffrey Chaucer; title: The floure and the leafe / ... written by Geffrey Chaucer; title: The wife of Bathe's tale / ... written by Geffrey Chaucer.