Dryden's "Hind and Panther")

He collected his porms, and they were published in 1709 ("Alma" and "Solomon in 1718). In 1740 two volumes of his poems were published, with (alleged) memoirs, and some of his best poems which had not been printed before. Priore 's Tale, The. One of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales." It is told by Madame Eglantine, and is the story of the child of a Christian widow killed in Asia by the Jews. Words worth wrote a modernized version. See Eglantine , and Hugh of Lincoln. Pripet (prēp'et). A river in western Ru ia, chiefly in the government of Minsk. It joins the Dnieper 50 miles north of Kieff. Length, about 400 miles; navigable to Pinsk. Priscian (prish'ian), L. Priscianus Cæsariensis (prish-i-a'nus sē-zā-ri-en's is). Lived about 500 A. D. A celebrated Latin grammarian. His most famous work is "Institutiones gramma tice."