Fables ancient and modern
By: translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer: with original poems. By Mr. Dryden ...
Contributors: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.; Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.; Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.; Homer.
Series: Library of English literature -- LEL 11096.
Publisher: J. Tonson
Published: 1700
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 646
Notes: Detached from: The works of Mr. John Dryden. The third volume ... London, 1701.

Page numbers 272-359 omitted.

Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, inc., 1970. 1 microfiche : positive ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 11096)

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Table of contents: title: Dedication. - The preface. - Poem to Her Grace the dutchess of Ormond, with the following story from Chaucer: Palamon and Arcite: or, The knight's tale. - To my honoured kinsman John Driden. - Meleager and Attalanta, out of Ovid's Metamorphoses. - Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccace. - Bauris and Philemon; Pigmalion and the statue; Ciniras and Myrrha; out of Ovid's Metamorphoses. - The first book of Homer's Ilias. - The cock and the fox; or, The tale of the nun's priest, from Chaucer. - Theodore and Honoria, from Boccace. - Ceyxe and Alcyone, out of Ovid's Metamorphoses. - The flower and the leaf: or, The lady in the arbor. A vision out of Chaucer. - Alexander's feast: or, The power of musick. An ode in honour of St. Cecilia. - 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 phylosophy, from Ovid's Metamorphoses. - The character of a good parson imitated, from Chaucer, and enlarged.; title: - The monument of a fair maiden lady, who dy'd at the Bath, and is there interr'd. - Aymon and Iphegnia, from Boccace. - The knight's tale; The tale of the nun's priest; The floure and the leafe; The wife of Bathe's tale; as written by Chaucer.