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Compiled from ample Materials scattered in a Va-
riety of Books, and especially from the MS.
Notes of the late ingenious Mr. CoxETER and
others, collected for this Design,

By Mr. CIBBER.
In FOUR VOLUMES.
VOL. I.

LONDON:

Printed for R. GRIFFITHS, at the Dunciad in
St. Paul's Church-Yard.

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The SECOND EDITION.

GEOFFRY CHAUCER.

T has been observed that men of eminence in all ages, and diftinguished for the fame excellence, have generally had fomething in their lives fi

milar to each other. The place of Homer's nativity, has not been more variously conjectur'd, or his parents more differently affigned, than our author's. Leland, that learned antiquarian, who lived nearest to Chaucer's time, of all those who have wrote his life, was commissioned by king Henry VIII, to search all the libraries, and religious houses in England, wherein those Archives were preserved, before their destruction was produced by the Reformation, or Polydore Virgil had consumed fuch curious pieces as would have contradicted his

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