Folger Shakespeare Library
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The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 55000 through 59999

  • Add. MS 57555

    Largely autograph notebook of Ralegh's, iii + 173 quarto leaves (including many blanks), in contemporary vellum, with traces of green silk ties.

    c.1603-18.

    Later owned by Frederick North (1766-1827), fifth Earl of Guilford, colonial governor; then, in 1830, by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector (Phillipps MS 6339. Sotheby's, 24 June 1935 (Phillipps sale), lot 144, to (Sir) Walter Oakeshott (1903-87), schoolmaster. Sotheby's, 30 November 1971, lot 526, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

    • *RaW 728 Entire MS
      Autograph

      A largely autograph notebook, with some pages in the hands of two amanuenses, compiled during Ralegh's imprisonment in the Tower of London; containing a glossary of geographical notes (used for his History of the World), several annotated ink and watercolour maps, a list of his books, and a poem, partly arranged under letters of the alphabet.

      This MS described by Walter Oakeshott (with a facsimile example) in An Unknown Raleigh MS, The Times (29 November 1952), p. 7; in The Queen and the Poet (London, 1960) (with facsimile examples facing pp. 119, 223); and in Sir Walter Ralegh's Library, The Library, 5th Ser. 23 (1968), 285-327 (with facsimile examples after p. 288, but plates I and II are not in Ralegh's hand). Facsimile examples also in Philip Edwards, Sir Walter Ralegh (London, 1953), facing p. 97; John Winton, Sir Walter Ralegh (London, 1975), facing p. 288; and Petti, English Literary Hands, Nos. 47-8.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Notebook
    • *RaW 200 f. 172v
      Autograph

      Autograph, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Oakeshott; in George Seddon, A Newly Discovered and Unknown Poem in Sir Walter Raleigh's Autograph, ILN (28 February 1953), p. 330 (with a facsimile), and in Walter Oakeshott, The Queen and the Poet (London, 1960), pp. 205-6 (with a facsimile facing p. 141). Facsimiles also in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), No. 12, p. 24, and of last two stanzas in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 48.

      First published in Walter Oakeshott, An Unknown Ralegh MS, The Times (29 November 1952), p. 7. Rudick, No. 23, pp. 46-7.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Now we have present made'

  • Add. MS 57804

    A large square-shaped folio composite volume of letters, in various hands and paper sizes, 188 leaves, mounted on guards.

    Correspondence of George Grenville (1712-70), Treasurer of the Navy, First Lord of the Admiralty and Chancellor of the Exchequer, his wife Elizabeth, and his brother Richard Temple-Grenville (1711-79), Earl Temple, First Lord of the Admiralty and Lord Privy Seal.

    Sotheby's, 7 November 1972.

    • CgW 27.5 f. 31v

      Copy, in double columns, subscribed sent to my Ld Cobham in a letter from Bath 24 August 1728, in a letter (ff. 31r-2v) by George Grenville to his brother Richard (who was Lord Cobham's nephew and heir), written from London, 19 March 1728/9.

      Edited from this MS in Descriptions of Lord Cobham's Gardens at Stowe (1700-1750), ed. G.B. Clarke, Buckinghamshire Record Society, 26 (1990), pp. 24-7.

      First published, as Of Improving the Present Time, London, 1729. Summers, IV, 177-8. Dobrée, pp. 400-2. McKenzie, II, 486-8.

      William Congreve, Letter to Viscount Cobham ('Sincerest Critick of my Prose, or Rhime')

  • Add. MS 58214

    A tall folio volume of pedigrees, apparently taken from heraldic visitations of Kent, Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Oxfordshire in 1574-86, iii + 77 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.

    In several largely secretary hands, one predominating, with coats of arms and other devices drawn in trick, bearing occasional additions and annotations in Camden's italic hand, including full pages ff. 5r, 30r, 33r, 37r, 39v, 75v-6r.

    Late 16th century.

    Afterwards owned by the St George family of heralds. Bookplate of Sir George Nayler (1764-1831), Garter King of Arms. Sotheby's, 25 July 1832 (Nayler sale), lot 131, to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector (Phillipps MS 9781). Sotheby's, 26 June 1974 (Phillipps sale), lot 2882, with a facsimile of f. 30r in the sale catalogue.

    • *CmW 144
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      William Camden, Collectanea

  • Add. MS 58215

    A quarto verse miscellany, written from both ends, 192 leaves (including blanks), in old brown calf.

    Compiled, over a period, principally by Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), Chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford, and Henry King's amanuensis, including (ff. 7r-61r) 24 poems by King in Manne's formal hand, written c.1625-30s; ff. 61v-72v, 73r-99v, 100r-101v written in a variant style of Manne's hand, c.1630s; and (ff. 72v, 99v, 102r-14v, 190v-169r rev.) additions in six other hands, c.1630s-44, with (ff. 75r, 76r, and 76v) three poems to which the subscription R. Dorset is added in the hand of King himself.

    c.1625-46.

    Inscribed (f. 190v rev.) Ann Littleton. Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue, [June 1848], p. 31. Sotheby's, 4 Februry 1850 (Rodd sale), lot 500, to James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Afterward owned by the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector. Sotheby's, 25 June 1873 (Corser sale), lot 325, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Later owned by the bookdealer Philip Robinson. Sotheby's, 26 June 1974, lot 3013, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.

    Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Thomas Manne MS: KiH Δ 7. Used in Crum. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

    • KiH 325 ff. 7r-9r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Crum. Facsimile of first page in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 26 June 1974, p. 116.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.

      Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind ('Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!')
    • KiH 279 f. 9v

      Copy, headed An Epitaph on the truly Noble Richard Earle of Dorsett.

      This MS collated in Crum.

      First published, in an abridged version, in Certain Elegant Poems by Dr. Corbet (London, 1647). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 67-8.

      Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset ('Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere')
    • CoR 333 ff. 13v-14r

      Copy.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 63-5.

      Richard Corbett, A letter sent from Doctor Corbet to Master Ailesbury, Decem. 9. 1618 ('My Brother and much more had'st thou bin mine')
    • DaJ 182 f. 15r

      Copy, headed On a Child and here beginning As carefull Nurses in their bed's doe lay.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.

      Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child ('As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay')
    • CwT 617 ff. 15v-17r

      Copy, here ascribed to Dor: Dunne.

      First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in his Select Psalmes of a New Translation (London, 1655), pp. 4-6 [unique exemplum in the Huntington]. Hazlitt (1870), pp. 181-4. Dunlap. pp. 139-42. Edited from Lawes in Scott Nixon, Henry Lawes's Hand in the Bridgewater Collection: New Light on Composer and Patron, HLQ, 62 (1999), 233-72 (pp. 265-6).

      Thomas Carew, Psalme 104 ('My soule the great Gods prayses sings')
    • BrW 159 f. 17r

      Copy.

      First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Brydges (1815), p. 76. Goodwin, II, 290.

      William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow ('Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd')
    • StW 793 f. 22v

      Copy.

      First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).

      William Strode, Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')
    • KiH 174 ff. 23v-24r

      Copy, headed On prince Henry. An Elegie; c.1625-30s.

      This MS collated in Crum.

      First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 65.

      Henry King, An Elegy Upon Prince Henryes Death ('Keep station Nature, and rest Heaven sure')
    • KiH 191 f. 24r-v

      Copy, headed On Sr. Walter Rawleigh.

      This MS collated in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 66.

      Henry King, An Elegy Upon S.W.R. ('I will not weep. For 'twere as great a Sinne')
    • KiH 669 f. 25r-v

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 146-7.

      Henry King, The Surrender ('My once Deare Love. Happlesse that I no more')
    • KiH 712 ff. 26r-7r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 142-4.

      Henry King, To his unconstant Freind ('But say, thou very Woman, why to mee')
    • KiH 315 ff. 27v-9r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 139-42.

      Henry King, An Essay on Death and a Prison ('A Prison is in all things like a Grave')
    • KiH 797 ff. 29v-31v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Crum, pp. 220-1.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 136-9.

      Henry King, The Woes of Esay ('Woe to the worldly men, whose covetous')
    • CoR 298 ff. 32r-42r

      Copy, headed Dor. Corbett's Northerne Journey.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.

      Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale ('Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two')
    • CoR 63 ff. 42v-4r

      Copy.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 56-9.

      Richard Corbett, The Distracted Puritane ('Am I madd, o noble Festus')
    • CoR 145 ff. 44v-6r

      Copy.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 59-62. The last 42 lines, beginning O thou deformed unwomanlike disease, in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 48.

      Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox ('Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true')
    • JnB 166 f. 50r-v

      Copy, headed The Body. Vpon mris. Ven: S:.

      First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).

      Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body ('Sitting, and ready to be drawne')
    • JnB 204 ff. 51r-3v

      Copy.

      Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

      Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind ('Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone')
    • KiH 101 ff. 67r-8r

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 73-5.

      Henry King, By Occasion of the young Prince his happy Birth. May 29. 1630 ('At this glad Triumph, when most Poëts use')
    • JnB 67 f. 68r

      Copy.

      First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 237-8.

      Ben Jonson, An Epigram on the Princes birth ('And art thou borne, brave Babe? Blest be thy birth')
    • CoR 521 f. 69r

      Copy.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 86.

      Richard Corbett, On the Birth of the Young Prince Charles ('When private men get sonnes they gette a spoone')
    • KiH 426 f. 74r

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published, as Man's Miserie, by Dr. K, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.

      Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation ('Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care')
    • KiH 520 f. 74r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Crum.

      First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 148-9.

      Henry King, Sic Vita ('Like to the Falling of a Starr')
    • KiH 110 f. 74v

      Copy, imperfect at the end.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 145-6.

      Henry King, The Defence ('Why slightest thou what I approve?')
    • KiH 358 f. 75r

      Copy of the last four lines; imperfect, lacking all the beginning, subscribed R. Dorset.

      This MS collated in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 150.

      Henry King, The Farwell ('Farwell fond Love, under whose childish whipp')
    • CoR 573 f. 77r

      Copy.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 88.

      Richard Corbett, To his sonne Vincent Corbett ('What I shall leave thee none can tell')
    • CwT 197 ff. 80r-1v

      Copy.

      First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Carew, Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 71-4.

      Thomas Carew, An Elegie upon the death of the Deane of Pauls, Dr. Iohn Donne ('Can we not force from widdowed Poetry')
    • CoR 193 f. 82r

      Copy, headed On the same [i.e. John Donne].

      First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 89.

      Richard Corbett, An Epitaph on Doctor Donne, Deane of Pauls ('Hee that would write an Epitaph for thee')
    • KiH 768 ff. 82v-3v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Crum.

      First published in John Donne, Deaths Duell (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 76-7.

      Henry King, Upon the Death of my ever Desired Freind Dr. Donne Dean of Paules ('To have liv'd Eminent, in a degree')
    • MsP 21.2 f. 84

      Copy, headed Choyce of a Wife.

      First published, as by P. M. and N[athan] F[ield], in London, 1632. Edwards & Gibson, I, 13-95 (p. 71).

      Philip Massinger, The Fatal Dowry, IV, ii, 51-8. Song ('Courtier, if thou needs wilt wiue')
    • ShJ 109 ff. 92r-3v

      Copy, here beginning Wellfare their Muses that wth well climbe verse

      First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, pp. 7-8.

      James Shirley, Vpon the Princes Birth ('Fair fall their Muses that in well-chim'd verse')
    • KiH 532 f. 94r-v

      Copy, headed Sonnet.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 159.

      Henry King, Silence. A Sonnet ('Peace my Hearte's blabb, be ever dumbe')
    • KiH 229 ff. 95r-7r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Crum.

      First published in The Swedish Intelligencer, Third Part (London, 1633). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 77-81.

      Henry King, An Elegy Upon the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus ('Like a cold Fatall Sweat which ushers Death')
    • KiH 212 f. 101r-v

      Copy, headed An Elegy.

      This MS collated in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 172-3.

      Henry King, An Elegy Upon the Bishopp of London John King ('Sad Relick of a Blessed Soule! whose trust')
    • WoH 88 f. 103r-v

      Copy of a six-stanza version, untitled.

      First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, You Meaner Beauties of the Night A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.

      Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia ('You meaner beauties of the night')
    • KiH 153 ff. 105r-6v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Crum.

      First published in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 12-15]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 174-7.

      Henry King, An Elegy Occasioned by Sicknesse ('Well did the Prophet ask, Lord what is Man?')
    • KiH 164 f. 107r-v

      Copy, headed An Elegie upon a Lady vnfortunately drowned in the Thames.

      This MS collated in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 96-7.

      Henry King, An Elegy Upon Mrs. Kirk unfortunately drowned in Thames ('For all the Ship-wracks, and the liquid graves')
    • KiH 221 ff. 108r-9r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 93-5.

      Henry King, An Elegy Upon the immature losse of the most vertuous Lady Anne Riche ('I envy not thy mortall triumphes, Death!')
    • KiH 388 ff. 109v-10v

      Copy.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 170-2.

      Henry King, The Legacy ('My dearest Love! When Thou and I must part')
    • KiH 146 f. 111r-v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 177-8.

      Henry King, The Dirge ('What is th' Existence of Man's Life?')
    • KiH 477 f. 112r-v

      Copy.

      This MS (erroneously cited for The Pink) recorded in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 180-2.

      Henry King, Paradox. That it is best for a Young Maid to marry an Old Man ('Fair one, why cannot you an old man love?')
    • KiH 475 ff. 113r-14v

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 182-5.

      Henry King, Paradox. That Fruition destroyes Love ('Love is our Reason's Paradox, which still')
    • MyJ 31 ff. 172v-171v rev.

      Copy.

      Jasper Mayne, 'Wert thou an ancient Corse of a grey head'
    • BrW 200 f. 174v rev.

      Copy.

      First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.

      William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ('Underneath this sable herse')
    • CwT 897 f. 174v rev.

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

      Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie ('Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face')
    • RnT 346 ff. 176v-175r rev.

      Copy, headed On an vnhandsome Gentlewoman, that sang very sweetly and here beginning Sweet Lesbia's voice I chanc'd to heare.

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 115-17. Davis, pp. 92-105.

      Thomas Randolph, Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet ('I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare')
    • StW 71 ff. 182r-181r rev.

      Copy, headed Vpon the Callot.

      Unpublished. Forey, pp. 150-3.

      William Strode, A Dialoge on the Calott ('Why Shoomaker, how ist I pay to You')
    • BrN 52.2 ff. 186r-182v rev

      Copy, headed The Copie of those verses that ye Earle of Essex made before his Death in ye Towre.

      First published in London, 1601. Attributed to Breton in Robertson, pp. xcii-xcviii, but see also Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 613-15. Printed and firmly attributed to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, in The Poems of Edward De Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, and of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, ed. Steven W. May, Studies in Philology, 77, No. 5 (Early Winter 1980), pp. 49-59 (No. 11) and pp. 94-106.

      Nicholas Breton, The Passion of a Discontented Minde ('From silent night, true register of mones')
    • CoR 219 ff. 188v-186v rev.

      Copy, headed a godly exhortation... and here ascribed to John Harris of Christchurch.

      First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 52-6.

      An exemplum of Poëtica Stromata at Christ Church, Oxford, has against this poem the MS marginal note None of Dr Corbets and an attribution to John Harris of Christ Church.

      Richard Corbett, An Exhortation to Mr. John Hammon minister in the parish of Bewdly, for the battering downe of the Vanityes of the Gentiles, which are comprehended in a May-pole… ('The mighty Zeale which thou hast new put on')
    • HoJ 60 ff. 190v-189r rev.

      Copy.

      Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of Doubtful Verses in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.

      John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart ('Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke')

  • Add. MS 58435

    Autograph volume of poems by Robert Sidney, with his revisions, 46 quarto leaves, in 19th-century black morocco gilt.

    Written for Sidney' wife, Barbara (née Gamage), but inscribed by him (f. 1r) For the Countess of Pembroke (his sister).

    Bookplate of Warwick Castle. Tipped-in letter about the MS by W. Blott to H.J. Cooke, 24 January 1848. Item 794 in an unidentified sale catalogue.

  • Add. MS 59678

    Copy in two scribal hands; used by William Caxton; imperfect, now consisting of part of Chapter VIII until near the end of Chapter CLXXII; 473 leaves, folio.

    c.1470-83.

    Once owned by one Richard Followell, probably a member of the Fowlwell or Fellwell family of Litchborough, Northamptonshire, tenants to a branch of the Malory family.

    Edited from this MS, with three facsimile pages, in The Works of Sir Thomas Malory, ed. Eugène Vinaver, 3 vols (Oxford, 1947; 2nd edition revised, 1967); facsimile edition of the MS in The Winchester Malory: A Facsimile, introduced by N.R. Ker, EETS 884 (Oxford, 1976). Discussed extensively in Lotte Hellinga and Hilton Kelliher, The Malory Manuscript, BLJ, 3 (1977), 91-113. Facsimile of f. 45r in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), No. 1, p. 4.

    • MaT 1
      No description or publication history available.

      First published by William Caxton (London, 1485). The Works of Sir Thomas Malory, ed. Eugene Vinaver (Oxford, 1947); 2nd edition, revised (Oxford, 1967); 3rd edition, revised by P.J.C. Field, 3 vols (Oxford, 1990).

      Sir Thomas Malory, Morte D'Arthur

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