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GEOFFREY CHAUCER.

Cook Sculp

London Printed for John Bell British Library Nov. 20 1782.

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POETICAL WORKS

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GEOFF. CHAUCER.

IN FOURTEEN VOLUMES.

THE MISCELLANEOUS PIECES

From Urry's Edition 1721,

THE CANTERBURY TALES

From Tyrwhitt's Edition 1775.

Grete well CHAUCER whan ye mete--..

Of ditees and of fonges glade,

The which he---made,

The londe fulfilled is over all.

GOWER.

My maifter CHAUCER---chiefe poete of Bretayne----
Whom all this londe fchulde of ryght preferre,

Sith of our langage he was the lode-fierre----
That made firft to dystylle and rayne

The gold dewe dropys of fpeche and eloquence
Into our tunge thrugh his excellence.

The honour of English tong is dede-.-.
My may ster CHAUCER, floure of eloquence,
Mirrour of fructuous entendement,
Univerfel fadir in fcience----

LYDGATE,

This londis verray trefour and richesse-...

The firfte fynder of our fayre langage.

OCCLEVE.

Venerabill CHAUCER, principall poete but pere,

Hevinly trumpet, orlege and regulere,

In eloquence balme, condict and diall,
Mylky fountane, clene forand, and rois riall,

Of frefche endite throw Alpiona iland braid.

O reverend CHAUCER! rofe of rethouris all,
As in oure toung flour imperial

That raife in Brittane evir, qua reidis right
Thou beiris of Makers the triumphs royall,
The frefche enamilt termes celefliall:
This mater couth haif illuminit full bricht,
Was thou pocht, of our Inglis all the light,
Surmounting every toung terrestriall
As far as Mayi's morrow dois midnight.

VOL. I.

EDINBURG:

DOUGLAS.

DUNBAR.

AT THE Apollo Prels, BY THE MARTINS.
Anno 1782.

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