The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, modernis'd [Vol. II] [ESTC T75505]

DMI number:

709

Publication Date:

1742

Volume Number:

2 of 2

ESTC number:

T75505

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW113478062

Shelfmark:

BOD Vet A4 f.1702

Full Title:

THE | CANTERBURY TALES | OF | CHAUCER, | Modernis'd by several Hands. | [rule] | Publish'd by Mr. [i]OGLE[/i]. | [rule] | VOL. II. | [rule] | [ornament] | [double rule] | [i]DUBLIN[/i]: | Printed by and for GEORGE FAULKNER. | [rule] | M,D,CC,XLII.

Place of Publication:

Dublin

Format:

Duodecimo

Pagination:

[4], 1-184, [2], [iii]-xxxv, [1], [37]-156

Bibliographic details:

1741 Dublin edition of George Ogle's Gualtherus and Griselda: or the Clerk of Oxford's Tale [T75509] incorporated into the miscellany after p. 184. This has separate title page: GUALTHERUS and GRISELDA: | OR, THE | [i]Clerk[/i] of [i]Oxford[/i]'s TALE. | FROM | BOCCACE, PETRARCH, [i]and[/i] CHAUCER. | To which are added, | A Letter to a FRIEND, with the [i]Clerk[/i] of [i]Oxford[/i]'s | Character, [i]&c.[/i] | The [i]Clerk[/i] of [i]Oxford[/i]'s Prologue, from CHAUCER. | The [i]Clerk[/i] of [i]Oxford[/i]'s Conclusion, from PETRARCH. | The Declaration, or [i]l'Envoy de[/i] CHAUCER [i]a les Maris | de notre Temps[/i], from CHAUCER. | A Letter in [i]Latin[/i], from PETRARCH to BOCCACE. | [rule] | [i]By[/i] GEORGE OGLE, [i]Esq[/i]; | [rule] | [i]DUBLIN:[/i] | Printed for GEORGE FAULKNER in [i]Essex-| street. MDCCXLI. Mispagination: p. 119 misnumbered as 219; in second half of book 120 as 20;

Comments:

Contents: Prose pp. [iii]-xxv; Latin text pp. 148-156.

Other matter:

Contents page [1p.];

Related Miscellanies

Title:

The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, modernis'd by several hands [Vol II] [T75503]

Publication Date:

1741

ESTC No:

T75503

Volume:

2 of 3

Relationship:

Another Edition of

Comments:

Title:

The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, modernis'd by several hands [Vol III] [ESTC T75503]

Publication Date:

1741

ESTC No:

T75503

Volume:

3 of 3

Relationship:

Another Edition of

Comments:

Title:

The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, modernis'd [Vol. I] [ESTC T75505] [ECCO]

Publication Date:

1742

ESTC No:

T75505

Volume:

1 of 2

Relationship:

Volume from the same edition

Comments:

Related People

Editor:

George Ogle

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Printer:

George Faulkner

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Publisher:

George Faulkner

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Around on all at the narration gazed

Page No:

pp.1-2

Poem Title:

Prologue to The Squire's Tale.

Attribution:

By Mr. Ogle

Attributed To:

George Ogle

First Line:

Where peopled Scythia's verdant plain extend

Page No:

pp.3-89

Poem Title:

Cambuscan: or, The Squire's Tale

Attribution:

By Mr. Boyse

Attributed To:

Samuel Boyse

George Ogle

First Line:

Well closed the merchant thus applauds the squire

Page No:

pp.90-94

Poem Title:

Prologue to the Merchant's Tale.

Attribution:

By Mr. Ogle

Attributed To:

George Ogle

First Line:

There lived in Lombardy as authors write

Page No:

pp.95-122

Poem Title:

January and May: or, The Merchant's Tale.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Behold the woes of matrimonial life

Page No:

pp.123-139

Poem Title:

Prologue to the Wife of Bath's Tale.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [i.e. Pope] [From p. 138] Continu'd by Mr. Ogle.

Attributed To:

George Ogle

Alexander Pope

First Line:

In days of old when Arthur filled the throne

Page No:

pp.140-158

Poem Title:

The Desire of Woman: or, The Wife of Bath's Tale.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Full on the sumner loured the licensed friar

Page No:

pp.159-160

Poem Title:

Prologue to the Fryar's Tale.

Attribution:

By Mr. Ogle

Attributed To:

George Ogle

First Line:

A rigorous archdeacon whilom lived

Page No:

pp.161-173

Poem Title:

The Sumner and the Devil: or, The Fryar's Tale.

Attribution:

By Mr. Markland

Attributed To:

J. Markland

First Line:

Here paused the friar to laugh at his own wit

Page No:

pp.174-177

Poem Title:

Prologue to the Sumner's Tale.

Attribution:

By Mr. Ogle

Attributed To:

George Ogle

First Line:

Where Humber's streams divide the fruitful plain

Page No:

pp.178-184

Poem Title:

The Farmer and the Fryar: or, The Sumner's Tale.

Attribution:

By Mr. Grosvenor

Attributed To:

Mr. Grosvenor

First Line:

But for to tellin of this worthie man

Page No:

pp.ix-x

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chaucer

Attributed To:

Geoffrey Chaucer

First Line:

I wolle you telle a tale whiche that I

Page No:

p.xiv

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chaucer

Attributed To:

Geoffrey Chaucer

First Line:

When now the rage of hunger was allayed

Page No:

pp.xxi-xxii

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Then thus our host his speech renewed again

Page No:

pp.xxii-xxiii

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Consent from one and all the question bore

Page No:

pp.xxiii-xxiv

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Suffice that on the knight the forfeit fell

Page No:

p.xxiv

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

But to return great joy our host expressed

Page No:

pp.xxv-xxvi

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A clerk of Oxford next appeared in sight

Page No:

pp.xxviii-xxx

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Meantime our host the studious youth surveyed

Page No:

pp.37-40

Poem Title:

Prologue to the Clerk of Oxford's Tale.

Attribution:

By Mr. Ogle

Attributed To:

George Ogle

First Line:

Down at the foot of Vesulus the cold

Page No:

pp.41-138

Poem Title:

The Clerk of Oxford's Tale

Attribution:

By the same hand ie. Mr. Ogle

Attributed To:

George Ogle

First Line:

I mean not by this tale I must declare

Page No:

pp.139-140

Poem Title:

The Clerk of Oxford's Conclusion. From Petrarch.

Attribution:

By Mr. Ogle

Attributed To:

George Ogle

First Line:

Chaucer who close attended from the ground

Page No:

pp.141-145

Poem Title:

Chaucer's Declaration; or, L'Envoy de Chaucer a les Mariz de notre Temps.

Attribution:

By George Ogle

Attributed To:

George Ogle

First Line:

The worthy student to scholastic pride

Page No:

pp.146-147

Poem Title:

The Words of our Host.

Attribution:

By George Ogle

Attributed To:

George Ogle