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.

Tunc me discussa liquerunt nocte tenebre, Lu∣minibusque prior redit vigor. Ut cum praecipiti glomerantur sidera choro. Nimbosisque polus stetit imbribus. Sol later, ac nondum coelo ve∣nientibus astris, &c.

THus when that night was discussed a∣way, Darknesse forlette me, and to my iyen repaired againe her first strength. And right as by ensample, as y^e Sunne is hidde when the Sterres been couered with clouds, by a swift wind that hight Chorus, and the Firmament stant derked by were plungy clouds: And that the Sterres not apperen vpon y^e heauen, so that the night semed sprad vpon the yearth. If then the wind that hight Boreas, isent out of the Caue of the Coun∣try of Trace, beateth this night, that is to saine, chaseth it away, & discouereth y^• closed day, then shineth Phebus, ishaked with so∣daine light, and smiteth with his beams in marueyling iyen.