Fables ancient and modern
By: translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer: with original poems. By Mr. Dryden ...
Contributors: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.; Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375; Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400; Homer
Publisher: Printed for Jacob Tonson ...
Published: 1721
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
Notes: Third edition.

Signatures: A-R¹² (A₁, frontispiece)

Bound in calf.

--The flower and the leaf: or, The lady in the arbour [from Chaucer]--Alexander's feast; or, The power of musick.--Ovid's Metamorphoses (bk. XII) wholly translated.--The speeches of Ajax and Ulysses: from the thirteenth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.--The wife of Bath her tale [from Chaucer]--Of the Pythagorean philosophy. From the fifteenth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.--The character of a good parson; imitated from Chaucer.--The monument of a fair maiden lady, who dy'd at Bath.--Cymon and Iphigenia, from Boccace.
Table of contents: title: Dedication.; title: Preface.; title: To Her Grace the Dutchess of Ormond. Palamon and Arcite: or, The knight's tale [from Chaucer]; title: To my honour'd kinsman, John Driden, of Chesterton.; title: Meleager and Atalanta, out of the eighth book of Ovid's Metamorphosis.; title: Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccace.; title: Baucis and Philemon, out of the eighth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.; title: Pygmalion and the statue, out of the tenth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.; title: Cinyras and Myrrha, out of the tenth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.; title: Homer's Ilias (bk. I); title: The cock and the fox: or, The tale of the nun's priest, from Chaucer.; title: Theodore and Honoria. From Boccace.; title: Ceyx and Alcyone [from Ovid]