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Chaucer's ghoast

Or, A Piece of antiquity. Containing twelve pleasant Fables of Ovid penn'd after the ancient manner of writing in England. Which makes them prove Mock-Poems to the present Poetry. With the History of Prince Corniger, and his Champion Sir Crucifrag, that run a tilt likewise at the present Historiographers
  
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Upon the Authours Piece of Anniquity, by his Friend.
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Chaucer's Ghoast
 I. 
[Pygmalion niveum mira feliciter arte]
 II. 
[------alienæ cornua fronti]
 III. 
[------Placuit, quæ sit sententia docti]
 IV. 
[Pulshrior in tota, quam Larissæa Coronis]
 V. 
[Nec si quæsieris odium Cyclopis amorne]
 VI. 
[Accipe me generum dixi Parthaone nate]
 VII. 
[Ut Venere locum conjux & adulter in unum]
 VIII. 
[Conjugis adventum præsenserat, inq; nitentem]
 IX. 
[Victa nitore dei positâ vim passa querela est. ]
 X. 
[Dum redit itq; frequens in virgine Nona. crinâ.]
 XI. 
[My son a man to buy him peace]
 XII. 
The Pleasant History of Prince Corniger, and his Champion Sir Crucifrag.
  
The Authours Friend to the Readers upon his perusal of the Work.

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Upon the Authours Piece of Anniquity, by his Friend.

New Pamphlets every day, new Book's the cry:
The reason (since they are so common) why?
Can that be new whose likeness every day
Appears in the same mode? for shame away.
If this be news, then Pie at Christmas is,
And Pancakes on Shrove-Tuseday are novelties:
But here's a Piece; come quick, before 'tis sold.
'Tis truly new: for why? because 'tis old.
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