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An Account of The Christmas Prince : as it was exhibited in The University of Oxford, in the Year 1607. Now first published from the original manuscript
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Formerly bound with manuscripts of other American poets. Consult mssHM 1216-1246 for table of contents with additional notes. Also includes a print of Riley's likeness.
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