Fables ancient and modern
Subtitle: translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace and Chaucer, with original poems.
By: By John Dryden.
Contributors: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.; Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375; Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400; Homer.
Publisher: A. Foulis
Published: 1776
Place of publication: Glasgow
Language: eng
Notes: In boxes.
Table of contents: value: v. 1.  Dedication.  Preface.  To her grace the Duchess of Ormond.  Palamon and Arcite; or, The knight's tale.  To my honoured kinsman John Dryden.  Meleager and Atalanta.  Sigismonda and Guiscardo. Baucis and Philemon.  Pygmalion and the statue.  Cinyras and Myrra. The first book of Homer's Ilias.-  v. 2.  The cock and the fox; or, The tale of the nun's priest.  Theodore and Honoria.  Ceyx and Alcyone.  The flower and the leaf; or, The lady in the arbour.  Alexander's feast; or, The power of music, an ode.  The twelfth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.  The speeches of Ajax and Ulysses.  The wife of Bath, her tale.  Pythagorian philosophy.  The character of a good parson.  The monument of a fair maiden lady.  Cymon and Iphigenia.