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 June 11, 2024.

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Electus Christi, pie rex Henrici fuisti Qui bene venisti, cum propria regna petisti Tu mala vicistique bonis bona restituisti Et populo tristi, nova gaudia contribuisti Est mihi spes lata, quod adhuc per te renovata Succedent fata, veteri probitare beata Est tibi nam grata, gratia sponte data. Henrici quarti, primus regni fuit annus Quo mihi defecit visus ad acta mea, Omnia tempus habent finem natura ministrat Quem virtute sua frangere nemo potest, Ultra posse nihil quamvis mihi velle remansit Amplius ut scribam non mihi posse manet, Dum potui scripsi, sed nunc quia curva senectus, Turbavit sensus scripta relinquo scholis,

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Scribat qui veniet post me discretior alter. Ammodo namque manus & mea penna silent, Hoc tamen in fine verborum queso meorum, Prospera quod statuat regna futura Deus.
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