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HE hint of the following piece was taken from Chaucer's House of Fame. The defign is in a manner entirely altered, the descriptions and most of the particular thoughts my own: yet I could not fuffer it to be printed without this acknowledgment. The reader who would compare this with Chaucer, may begin with his third Book of Fame, there being nothing in the two firft books that anfwers to their title: whereever any hint is taken from him, the paffage itself is fet down in the marginal notes. P.

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

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Millions of suppliant Crouds the Shrine attend, And all degrees before the Goddess bend; The Poor, the Rich, the Valiant, and the Sage, And boasting Youth, and narrative Old-age.

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N that soft season, when defcending show'rs Call forth the greens, and wake the rifing flow'rs; When op'ning buds falute the welcome day, And earth relenting feels the genial ray; As balmy fleep had charm'd my cares to rest, 5 And love itself was banish'd from my breast, (What time the morn mysterious visions brings, While purer flumbers spread their golden wings)

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VER. 1. In that foft feafon, etc.] This Poem is introduced in the manner of the Provencial Poets, whose works were for the most part Visions, or pieces of imagination, and conftantly defcriptive. From thefe, Petrarch and Chaucer frequently borrow the idea of their poems. See the Trionfi of the former, and the Dream, Flower and the Leaf, etc. of the latter. The Author of this therefore chofe the fame fort of Exordium. P.

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