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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¶Lenuoye.

Princesse, pleaseth it to your benignitie This little ditie to haue in mind, Of womanhede also for to see, Your man may your mercy find,

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And pity eke, that long hath be behind, Let him againe be provoked to grace, For by my trouth it is against kind, False Daunger to occupy his place.
Go little quaire vnto my lives queene And my very hearts soueraine, And be right glad for she shall thee seene, Such is thy grace, but I alas in paine Am left behind, & not to whom to plaine, For mercy, ruth, grace, and eke pite Exiled be, that I may not attaine, Recure to find of mine adversite.
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