Book detail: Dedication to His Grace the Duke of Ormond. The preface. Poem to Her Grace the Dutchess of Ormond. Palamon and Arcite: or, The Knight's tale, from Chaucer (bk. I-III) To my honoured kinsman John Dryden of Chesterton. Meleager and Atalanta, out of the eighth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccace. Baucis and Philemon, out of the eighth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Pygmalion and the statute, out of the tenth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Cinyras and Myrrha, out of th is presented as a focused source page for quotations connected with this book, collection, transcript, or source record.
This book is a compilation of various literary pieces, including dedications to the Duke and Duchess of Ormond, tales from Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, and adaptations of myths and stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses and Boccace's works.
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