Fables Ancient and Modern: translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer: with original poems

THE TABLE. Dedication to His Grace the Duke of Ormond. The Preface. Poem to Her Grace the Dutchess of Ormond, with the following Story of Palamon and Arcite, from Chaucer. Palamon and Arcite: or, the Knight's Tale, from Chaucer. Book the First. Page 1 The Second Book 25 The Third Book 49 To my Honoured Kinsman, John Driden of Chesterton in the County of Huntingdon, Esq; 91 Meleager and Attalanta, out of the Eighth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. 103 Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccace. 121 Baucis and Philemon, out of the Eighth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. 153 Pigmalion and the Statue, out of the Tenth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. 165 Ciniras and Myrrha, out of the Tenth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. 173 The First Book of Homer's Ilias. 189 The Cock and the Fox: or, the Tale of the Nun's Priest, from Chaucer. 223 Theodore and Honoria, from Boccace. 257 Ceyxe and Alcyone, out of the Tenth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. 361 The Flower and the Leaf: or, the Lady in the Arbor. A Vision out of Chaucer. 383 Alexander's Feast; or, the Power of Musick. An Ode in Honour of St. Cecilia. 409 The Twelfth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses wholly Translated. 419 The Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses, from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book the Thirteenth. 453 The Wife of Bath, her Tale, from Chaucer. 479 Of the Pythagorean Phylosophy, from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book the Fifteenth. 503 The Character of a Good Parson Imitated, from Chaucer, and enlarged. 531 The Monument of a Fair Maiden Lady, who dy'd at the Bath, and is there Interr'd. 537 Cymon and Iphegnia, from Boccace. 541 FINIS.