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George Gascoigne, poet and dramatist, presenting his Hemetes the Heremyte

(c. 1579) to Elizabeth

A BOOK OF

ELIZABETHAN PROSE

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JOHN DOVER WILSON, M.A.

FORMERLY SCHOLAR OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

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