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The Canterbury tales

Title: The Canterbury tales of Chaucer, modernis'd by several hands. Publish'd by Mr. Ogle.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
Publication: London, Printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1741.

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Description

3 v.; 21 cm.

Subject

English poetry

Note

A free paraphrase in verse.
Most of the prologues to the different tales are by Mr. Ogle.
"In vol. II, the Cook's tale is the Tale of Gamelyn, and the so-called Prologue to the Cook's tale is Chaucer's Cook's tale, patched to serve as preliminary to Gamelyn."--E. P. Hammond, Chaucer, a bibliographical manual, 1908, p. 225.

Contents

v. 1. The life of Chaucer, by Mr. Urry. Prologue to the Tales, by Mr. Ogle, Mr. Betterton, and Mr. Dryden. The Knight's tale, by Mr. Dryden. The Miller's tale, by Mr. Cobb. The Reve's tale, by Mr. Betterton--v. 2. The prologue to the Cook's tale, by Mr. Ogle. The Cook's tale, by Mr. Bayse. The Man of law's tale, by Mr. Brooke. The Squire's tale, by Mr. Bayse. The Squire's tale, continued from Spenser, by Mr. Ogle.--v. 3. A letter to a friend, with the poem of Gualtherus and Griselda, signed: George Ogle. Fr. Petrarchae epistola ad Joan. Boccatium. The Merchant's tale, by Mr. Pope. Prologue to the Wife of Bath's tale, by Mr. Pope. Prologue to the Wife of Bath's tale; continued by Mr. Ogle. The Wife of Bath's tale, by Mr. Dryden. The Fryar's tale, by Mr. Markland. The Sumner's tale, by Mr. Grosvenor. The Clerk of Oxford's tale, by Mr. Ogle.

Call Number

NCL (Ogle) (Chaucer, G. Canterbury tales)

LCCN

16001000

Author

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.

Title

The Canterbury tales of Chaucer, modernis'd by several hands. Publish'd by Mr. Ogle.

Imprint

London, Printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1741.

Local Note

Bequest of Hon. J.L. Cadwalader.

Added Author

Ogle, George, 1704-1746.

Urry, John, 1666?-1715.

Dryden, John, 1631-1700.

Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.

Betterton, Thomas, 1635?-1710.

Cobb, Samuel, 1675-1713.

Boyse, Samuel, 1708-1749.

Brooke, Henry, 1703?-1783.

Markland, Jeremiah, 1693-1776.

Grosvenor.

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.

Research Call Number

NCL (Ogle) (Chaucer, G. Canterbury tales)

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