The works of our ancient, learned, & excellent English poet, Jeffrey Chaucer as they have lately been compar'd with the best manuscripts, and several things added, never before in print : to which is adjoyn'd The story of the siege of Thebes, by John Lidgate ... : together with The life of Chaucer, shewing his countrey, parentage, education, marriage, children, revenues, service, reward, friends, books, death : also a table, wherein the old and obscure words in Chaucer are explained, and such words ... that either are, by nature or derivation, Arabick, Greek, Latine, Italian, French, Dutch, or Saxon, mark'd with particular notes for the better understanding of their original.
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The works of our ancient, learned, & excellent English poet, Jeffrey Chaucer as they have lately been compar'd with the best manuscripts, and several things added, never before in print : to which is adjoyn'd The story of the siege of Thebes, by John Lidgate ... : together with The life of Chaucer, shewing his countrey, parentage, education, marriage, children, revenues, service, reward, friends, books, death : also a table, wherein the old and obscure words in Chaucer are explained, and such words ... that either are, by nature or derivation, Arabick, Greek, Latine, Italian, French, Dutch, or Saxon, mark'd with particular notes for the better understanding of their original.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: [s.n.],
1687.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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"The works of our ancient, learned, & excellent English poet, Jeffrey Chaucer as they have lately been compar'd with the best manuscripts, and several things added, never before in print : to which is adjoyn'd The story of the siege of Thebes, by John Lidgate ... : together with The life of Chaucer, shewing his countrey, parentage, education, marriage, children, revenues, service, reward, friends, books, death : also a table, wherein the old and obscure words in Chaucer are explained, and such words ... that either are, by nature or derivation, Arabick, Greek, Latine, Italian, French, Dutch, or Saxon, mark'd with particular notes for the better understanding of their original." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A32749.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.
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Cresus.
THe rich Cresus, whilom king of Lide,Of which Cresus, Cirus sore him drad,Yet was he caught amid all his pride,And to brenne, men to the fire him lad:But such a rain down fro the firmament shadThat queint the fire, and made him to scape:But to beware yet no grace he had,Till fortune on the gallows made him gape.
When he escaped was, he could not stintFor to begin a new aray again:He wend well, for that fortune him sentSuch hap, that he escaped through the rain,That of his foes he might not be slain,And eke a sweven upon a night he met,
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Of which he was so proud, and eke so fain,That on vengeaunce he all his heart set.
Vpon a tree he was, as him thought,There Iupiter him wisshe, both back & side:And Phebus eke a faire towell him broughtTo dry him with, & therwith wexe his pride.And to his doughter that stood him beside,Which yt he knew in hie sentence habound,He bad her tell what it signified,And she his dreame right thus did expound.
The tree (qd. she) yt gallows is to meane,And Iupiter betokeneth snow and rain,And Phebus with his towell so cleane,Betokeneth the Sun beames, sooth to sain:Thou shalt honged be, father, certain,Raine shall thee wash, & sun shall thee drie:Thus warned him full plat and full plainHis doughter, that called was Phanie.
And honged was Cresus the proud king,His roiall throne might him not auaile:Tragedie is none, ne other manner thing,That can in singing crie ne bewaile,But that fortune all day woll assaile* With unware stroke, ye reignes yt been proud:For when men trusteth her, then wol she faile,And couer her bright face with a cloud.
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