Chaucer's ghoast, or, A piece of antiquity containing twelve pleasant fables of Ovid penn'd after the ancient manner of writing in England, which makes them prove mock-poems to the present poetry : with the history of Prince Corniger and his champion Sir Crucifrag, that run a tilt likewise at the present historiographers / by a lover of antiquity.

Argument. 2.

alienae cornua fronti Addita, vos{que} canes satiati sanguine he∣rili.

Ovid. l. 3.

OVid in his book he spakes examples touchen bad mistakes, and saith, how whilome there was one a worthy Lord, which Acteon was call'd, and he was Cousin nigh to him that Thebes first on high up set. Acteon 'bove all chear had used it form year to year, with Hounds and with great Horns amongst the Woods and the Thorns, to make his Hunting and his Chace, where he best thought in every place,

to find out Game in a fair way, there rode he for to hunt and play. So him befell upon a tide, on his hunting as he did ride, in a Forest alone he was, and saw there upon the green grass the fair flowers fresh to spring, he heard amongst the leafs to sing the Throstel with the Nightingale. Thus (e're he wyst) into a Dale he came, and in a Plain he lit all round about which was beset with bushes green, and cedars high, and there within he cast his eye; amidst the Plain he saw a Well so fair, that there may no man tell. In which Diana naked stood to bathe and play her in the Floud, with many Nymphs which there her served:

but he his eye away ne're swerved from her that was naked and tall; but she was wondrous wrath withall, and him (as she which was Goddess) for's hope, anon gave him likeness of Beasts, and made him be a Hart, which was before his Dogs to start. Then ran he busily about with many a horn, and many a rout, that made moche noise and piteous cry; and at the last unhappily this Hart his own Hounds grimly slew, and to pieces mischievously him drew. Lo now my Son, what it is a man to cast his eye amiss.