'In and before the poems of Chaucer, the poems of Ovid upon love and its cure were much drawn upon by writers of romance and allegories. They were the direct inspiration of much of the troubadour poetry of Provence, and thence of the mediaeval lyric verse of Europe in general. Ovidian borrowings are manifest in the "Romance of the Rose". Chaucer himself was a student of Ovid, Lucan, Virgil, "Stace" and also Livy. From Ovid's "Metamorphoses," and love-elegies in particular, he took much matter. Spenser's "Faerie Queene" is full of borrowings from Ovid's "Metamorphoses". The effect of Ovid on Shakespeare is manifest in his "Venus and Adonis"'.
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PALMERIN D'OLIVA.
THE MIRROUR OF NOBILITIE AND WONDER OF CHIVALRY.... Turned into English by [Anthony] M[unday]. 1637. 1st pt. Tr. 1588.
'This work was condemned by the licentiate in Don Quixote to be torn to pieces and burnt'.
PALMERIN OF ENGLAND.
THE HISTORIE OF PRINCE PALMERIN OF ENGLAND, 3 v. Tr. by A[nthony] M[unday]. 1602-9. Third bk. Tr. (1595).