Landon Printed for John Bell, British Library March 10 1785.

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7.7-8

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 maifler 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 dyftyile and rayne

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

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

This londis verray trefour and richeffe

The firfte fynder of surfayre langage.

LYDGATE.

OCCLEVE.

Venerabill CHAUCER,principal! pocte but pere,

Hevinly trumpet, ortege andregulere,

In cloquence balme, condit and diall,
Mylky fountane, clere ftrahd, and rois rial!,
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 celcftiall:
This mater couth baif 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. VII.

EDINBURG:

DOUGLAS.

DUNBAR.

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