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.

Arg. 3.

Placuit, quae sit sententia docti Quaerere Tiresiae. Venus huic erat utra{que} utra{que} nota.

Ovid. l. 3.

TRuth 'tis that good ne're came of strife, to seek it in all a mans life, though it begin upon pure game, full oft it turneth into bane, and doth grievance on some side, whereof the great Clerk Ovide, after this manner, as I trow, of Iupiter and's Wife Iuno, makes in his books mention how they fell at dissention amongst themselves in unity, and that was upon this degree;

which of the two more amorous is, or man or wife; and upon this they might no ways accord in one, and took one to judge thereupon, which called is Tyresias and bid him deem just in this case; and he without any avisement against Iuno gave his judgment. This Goddess upon his answer was wroth, and would not forbear, but took away for evermo the light from both his eyes two. When Jupiter this hurt had seen, another benefit then agen he gave, and such a grace him doth, that what he wist he said soth, a Sothsayer he was for ever; but yet that other had lever have had the looking of his eye, then of his word the Prophecy.