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.

Tragediae Senecae de Egypto Reg. Thebax.

Of Morall Senek fully his ending, His dooll, his mischief, and his compleining, How with sorrow, and vnweldie age, This Edippus fell in dotage, Lost his witte and his worldly delite, And how his sonnes had him in despite, And of disdaine tooke of him no keepe, And eke bookes saine, his iyen out he wepe, And as mine aucthour liketh to deuise, As his sonnes rebuke him and despise, Vpon a day in a certaine place, Out of his hedde, his iyen he gan race, And cast at hem, he can no other boote, And of malice they trade him vnder foote, Fully deuoid both of loue and dread, And when Edippus for mischief was thus ded Within a pitt made in the earth low, Of cruelty his sonnes gan him throw, Worse then Serpent, or any Tigre wood, * But of cursed stock commeth vnkind blood, As in storie ye may rede heretoforne, Although the Rose grow out of the thorne. Thus of Edippus when he was blind & old, The wretched end I haue you plainly told. * For which shortly to man and child I rede, To be wele ware and take hede, Of kindly right and of conscience, To doe honour and due renerence