text:  In a postscript to his preface he says "I have barely time here the tales being already almost all printed off to apologize to the reader for having inserted my own translation of The Nun's Priest's Tale instead of that of Dryden; but the fact is _I did not know that Dryden's version existed_; for having undertaken to complete those of the Canterbury Tales which were wanting in Ogle's collection and the tale in question _not being in that collection_ I proceeded to supply it having never till very lately strange as it may seem _seen the volume of Dryden's Fables in which it may be found_!!" It is diverting to hear the worthy who in 1795 had never seen Dryden's Fables offering to the public the first completed collection of the Canterbury Tales in a modern version "under the reasonable confidence that the improved taste in poetry and the extended cultivation of that in common with all the other elegant arts which so strongly characterizes the present day will make the lovers of verse look up to the old bard the father of English poetry with a veneration proportioned to the improvements they have made in it