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A53594 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 / by a lover of antiquity. Lover of antiquity.; Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.; Ovid, 43 B. C.-17 or 18 A. D. Metamorphoses.; Gower, John, 1325?-1408. Confessio amantis. 1672 (1672) Wing O647; ESTC R31770 28,522 136

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