THE 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 full filled is over all. GOWER. My maister CHAUCER---chiefe poete of Bretayne---- The gold dewe dropys of fpeche and eloquence The honour of English tong is dede--- This londis verray trefour and richeffe.... The firfte fynder of our fayre langage. LYDGATE. OCCLEVE. Venerabili CHAUCER, principail poete but pere, Hevinly trumpet, orlege and regulere, In eloquence baime, condict and diall, Of fresche endite throw Albioun iland braid. O reverend CHAUCER! rofe of rethouris all, That raife in Brittane evir, quha reidis right VOL. IV. EDINBURG: DOUGLAS. DUNRAR. AT THE Apollo Prefs, BY THE MARTINS, THE POETICAL WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER. VOL. IV. CONTAINING HIS CANTERBURY TALES, viz. THE FRANKELEINES TALE, THE DOCTOURES TALE, THE SHIPMANNES TALE, THE PRIORESSES TALE, AT THE Apollo Prefs, BY THE MARTINS. |