The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, in the original...and as they are turn'd into modern language [T76322] [ecco]
- DMI number:
- 571
- Publication Date:
- 1737
- ESTC number:
- T76322
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW114156819
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO - BOD
- Full Title:
- THE | CANTERBURY TALES | OF | [i]CHAUCER[/i], | IN THE | ORIGINAL, | From the Most | Authentic MANUSCRIPTS; | And as they are | Turn'd into MODERN LANGUAGE | BY | Mr. DRYDEN, Mr. POPE, and Other | EMINENT HANDS. | [rule]| [epigraph] | [double rule] | [i]LONDON[/i]: | Printed for the EDITOR; | And Sold by J. WALTHOE, in [i]Cornhill[/i]; W. BICKERTON, | in the [i]Strand[/i]; and O. PAYNE, in [i]Round-Court[/i]. | [short rule] | M.DCC.XXXVII.
- Epigraph:
- [i]Multa renascentur, quae jam cecidere; cadentque, | Quae nunc sunt in honore vocabula; si volet usus, | Quem penes arbitrium est, & jus, & norma loquendi.[/i] | HOR.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Format:
- Octavo
- Bibliographic details:
- Frontispiece.
- Comments:
- QUERY: review the decision not to include any of the quotations in the footnotes: should, at least, those 4 lines or longer be included? CONTENTS: Several of the poems have extensive notes which quote from a number of other texts. As these quotations are part of the scholarly apparatus, they have not been treated as free-standing poems and so have not been included. MISCELLANY GENRE: Collection of Chaucer-related texts.
- Other matter:
- PREFATORY MATTER: Dedication 'To his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales' signed 'The Editor' pp. iii-vi; Dedication 'To the Kynge's Highnesse, My Most Gracious Soveraigne Lord, Henry the Eight' written by 'Wyllyam Thynne' pp. vii-xiv; 'Some Account of the Life of Geoffrey Chaucer' pp. xv-xx; 'The Preface' pp. xxi-xxxvi. BACK MATTER: 'The Appendix. Annotations chiefly relating to Antiquities' pp. 349-384; 'Annotations on the Knyte's Tale' pp. 385-424; 'Various Readings' pp. [425]-441; 'Abbreviations Made use of in this Volume' pp. [444]-445; Index pp. 446-452.
- References:
- Case 411.
- Dedicatee:
- Henry VIII
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Dedicatee:
- Prince of Wales Frederick Lewis
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Editor:
- Thomas Morell
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- See ESTC record.
- Sold by:
- J. [John] Walthoe
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Sold by:
- Oliver Payne
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- And for there is so gret diversite
- Page No:
- p.xxiii
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- his own Prayer in Tr. and Cr
- Attributed To:
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- First Line:
- God of silence and of light
- Page No:
- p.xxv
- Poem Title:
- Chaucer himself has put the Matter out of Dispute, in his Poem, called The House of Fame, l. 3.
- Attribution:
- Chaucer
- Attributed To:
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- First Line:
- Whanne that Apryl with his Schouris sote
- Page No:
- pp.1-70
- Poem Title:
- The Prolog. Here begynneth the Prolog of this Boke, the whiche is namede the Talis of Canterbury.
- Attribution:
- Chaucer named on titlepage
- Attributed To:
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- First Line:
- Whilom as olde stories tellen us
- Page No:
- pp.71-206
- Poem Title:
- The Knyghtes Tale.
- Attribution:
- Chaucer named on titlepage
- Attributed To:
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- First Line:
- Twas when the fields imbibe the vernal showers
- Page No:
- pp.209-242
- Poem Title:
- Chaucer's Characters, &c.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Betterton
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Betterton
- First Line:
- Such were these pilgrims and from this display
- Page No:
- pp.242-246
- Poem Title:
- The Prologue continued.
- Attribution:
- By T. M.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In days of old there lived of mighty fame
- Page No:
- pp.247-348
- Poem Title:
- Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight's Tale.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
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