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A19014 The third booke of Amadis de Gaule Containing the discords and warres which befell in Great Brittaine, and there about, occasioned by the bad counsell, which King Lisuart receiued from Gandandell and Brocadan, against Amadis and his followers: whereby many good knights (afterward on either side) cruelly concluded their liues. VVritten in French by the Lord of Essars, Nicholas de Herberay ... Translated into English by A.M.; Amadís de Gaula (Spanish romance). Book 3-4. English. Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633. 1618 (1618) STC 543; ESTC S106808 427,906 389

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