...think fit hereafter, to describe another sort of Priests, such as are more easily to be found than the Good Parson; such as have given the last Blow to Christianity...Age, by a Practice so contrary to their Doctrine" ( Works vn: 35, 36-7). It was Pepys who suggested Chaucer's Priest's Tale to Dryden, but in the 1690s...

...some of the tales. Dryden alluded to Chaucer's timelessness in his "Preface to the Fables" in 1700: "He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive...observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his Canterbury Tales the various manners and humors (as we now call them) of the whole English nation...

...think fit hereafter, to describe another sort of Priests, such as are more easily to be found than the Good Parson ; such as have given the last Blow to...comprehensive Nature, because, as it has been truly observ'd of him, he has taken into the Compass of his Canterbury Tales the various Manners and Humours...

...think fit hereafter, to describe another sort of Priests, such as are more easily to be found than the Good Parson ; such as have given the last Blow to...But this will keep cold till another time. In the meau while, I take up Chaucer where I left him. He must have been a Man of a most wonderful comprehensive...

...think fit hereafter, to describe another sort of priests, such as are more easily to be found than the good Parson; such as have given the last blow to Christianity in this age by a practice so 480 contrary to their doctrine. But this will keep cold till another time. In the meanwhile, I take...