The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, modernis'd by several hands [Vol III] [ESTC T75503]
- DMI number:
- 707
- Publication Date:
- 1741
- Volume Number:
- 3 of 3
- ESTC number:
- T75503
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW110635735
- Shelfmark:
- EFL XF200 v. 3
- Full Title:
- THE | [i]CANTERBURY[/i] | TALES | OF | [i]CHAUCER[/i], | Modernis'd by several Hands. | [rule] | Publish'd by Mr. [i]OGLE[/i]. | [rule] | VOL. III. | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for J. and R. TONSON, in the [i]Strand[/i]. | [rule] | MDCCXLI.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of translations/imitations
- Format:
- Octavo
- Pagination:
- [2], iii-xxxii, 1-274, [1]
- Other matter:
- Contents p.iii; Prose Letter to a Friend, with the poem of Gualtherus and Griselda, signed George Ogle pp. v-xxviii; Latin prose text pp. xxix-xxxii.
- References:
- Case 432 (3) (a)
- 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:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Canterbury tales of Chaucer, modernis'd by several hands [Vol I] [ESTC T75503]
- Publication Date:
- 1741
- ESTC No:
- T75503
- Volume:
- 1 of 3
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, modernis'd [Vol. II] [ESTC T75505]
- Publication Date:
- 1742
- ESTC No:
- T75505
- Volume:
- 2 of 2
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Editor:
- George Ogle
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- Jacob Tonson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- Richard Tonson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- A clerk of Oxford next appeared in sight
- Page No:
- pp.xxiv-xxv
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- But to return great joy our host expressed
- Page No:
- p.xxii
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Consent from one and all the question bore
- Page No:
- p.xxi
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Suffice that on the knight the forfeit fell
- Page No:
- p.xxi
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Then thus our host his speech renewed again
- Page No:
- p.xx
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When now the rage of hunger was allayed
- Page No:
- pp.xix-xx
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I wolle you telle a tale whiche that I
- Page No:
- p.xiii
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Chaucer.
- Attributed To:
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- First Line:
- But for to tellin of this worthie man
- Page No:
- p.x
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Chaucer.
- Attributed To:
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- First Line:
- Well closed the merchant thus applauds the squire
- Page No:
- pp. 1-7
- 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. 9-50
- 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.51-75
- Poem Title:
- Prologue to the Wife of Bath's Tale.
- Attribution:
- By the same Hand [i.e. Pope] Continu'd by Mr. Ogle.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander PopeGeorge Ogle
- First Line:
- In days of old when Arthur filled the throne
- Page No:
- pp.76-104
- Poem Title:
- The Desire of Women, 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.105-107
- 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.108-126
- 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.127-131
- 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.132-142
- Poem Title:
- The Farmer and the Fryar: or, The Sumner's Tale.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Grosvenor [By Mr. Budgell]
- Attributed To:
- Eustace BudgellMr. Grosvenor
- First Line:
- Meantime our host the studious youth surveyed
- Page No:
- pp.143-147
- 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.148-263
- Poem Title:
- Gualtherus and Griselda: or, the Clerk of Oxford's Tale.
- Attribution:
- By the same Hand [i.e. Ogle]
- Attributed To:
- George Ogle
- First Line:
- I mean not by this tale I must declare
- Page No:
- pp.264-271
- Poem Title:
- Conclusion to the Clerk of Oxford's Tale
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Ogle
- Attributed To:
- George Ogle
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