POETICAL WORKS

OF

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 fullfilled 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-fterre----
That made firft to dy ftylle and rayne

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

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

This londis verray trefour and richeffe-...
The firfte fynder of our fayre langage.

LYDGATE.

OCCLEVE.

but

pere,

Venerabill CHAUCER, principall peete
Hevinly trumpet, orlege and regulere,
In cloquence balme, condict and diall,
Mylky fountane, ciere ffrand, and rois riall,
Of frefche endite throw Albioun iland braid.
O reverend CHAUCER! rofe of rethouris all,
As in oure toung flour imperial

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

VOL. VI.

EDINBURG:

DOUGLAS.

DUNBAR.

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

POETICAL WORKS

OF

GEOFFREY CHAUCER.

VOL. VI.

CONTAINING HIS

CANTERBURY TALES, viz.

THE COKES TALE OF CAMEL. THE PARDON AND TAPST

THE MARCH. SECOND TALE,

Ec. &c. c.

But natheles certain

I can right now no thrifty Tale fain,

But CHAUCER, (though he can but lewedly
On metres and on riming craftily)

Hath fayd hem in fwiche English as he can
Of olde time, as knoweth many a man ;
And if he have not fayd hem, leve brother,

In o book, he hath fayd hem in another....

Who fo that wol his large Volume feke. TALES, ver. 4465.

Dan CHAUCER, well of English undefil'd,

On Fame's eternal bead-roll worthy to be fil'd----
Old Dan Geffrey, in whofe gentle fpright
The pure well-head of poetry did dwell
He whilft he lived was the foveraigne head
Of thepherds all

Old CBAUCER, like the morning ftar,

To us difcovers day from far;

SPENSER.

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