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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Of the Almicanteras, the signet, and what is
thine Orizont.
UPon this foresaid plate been compassed
certain cercles, that highten almican∣teras:
of which some of hem seemen parfit
cercles, and some seemen imparfit. The
centure that standeth amidst the narrowest
cercle, is cleped the signet. And the nether∣est
cercle, that deuideth the two emisperies,
that is the party of the heuen aboue the
earth, and the party beneath. These almi∣canteras
been compouned by two and two,
all be it so, that on diuers Astrolabies, some
almicanteras been deuided by one, and some
by two, and some by three, after the quantity
of the Astrolabie. This foresaid signet is
imagined to be the very point ouer the
croune of thy head, and also this signet is
the very pole of the orizont in euery region.
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