POETICAL WORKS

OF

GEOFFREY CHAUCER.
CHAUCER.

VOL. XIV.

CONTAINING

A GLOSSARY,

&c. &c. &c.

But natheles certain

I can right now no thrifty Tale fain,
But CHAUCER, (though be can but lewedly
On metres and on rinsing 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 Al'd
Old Dan Geffiey, in whofe gentle fright
The pure well-head of poetry did dwell....
Hie whilst he lived was the foveraigne bead
Offhepherds all.......

Old CHAUCER, like the morning ftar,
To usdifcovers day from far;

His light thofe mifts and clouds diffolv'd
Which our dark nation long involv'd;
But he defcending to the fhades.

Darkness again the age invades.

SPENSER.

DENHAM.

CHAUCER, him who firn with harmony inform'd

The language of our fathers...His legends blithe

He fang of love or knighthood, or the wiles.

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

1

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 maister 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 dy ftylle and rayne

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

The honour of English tong is dede---

My mayfter CHAUCER, foure of eloquence,
Mirrour of fructuous entendement,

Univerfel fadir in fcience---

This londis verray trefour and richesse-...

The firfte fynder of our fayre langage.

LYDGATE.

OCCLEVE.

Venerabill CHAUCER, principall poete but pere,
Hevinly trumpet, orlege and regulere,

In eloquence balme, condict and diall,
Mylky fountane, clere firand, 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, quha 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 terrestriall
As far as Mayi's morrow dois midnight.

VOL. XIV.

EDINBURG:

DOUGLAS.

DUNBAR.

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

Page

"Alone walkyng," &c.

A ballade, "In Feverere," &c.

123

125

A ballade, "O mercifull," &c.

127

How Mercurie, with Pallas, Venus, and Juno,

women,

A balade declaring that womens chastite doeth moche excel all trefure worldly,

Chaucer's wordes unto his own scrivenere,

John Gower unto the noble King Henry IV.
A balade of gode counfeile, by Dan Ihon Lidgat, 154
Scogan unto the lordes and gentilmen of the

kinge's house,

Teftimonies of learned men concerning Chaucer

and his Works,

From the APOLLO PRESS,

by the MARTINS,

March 22. 1783.

159

166-200

134

136

138 139

END OF VOLUME THIRTEENTH.