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B00220 A bloodie tragedie, or Romish maske. Acted by fiue Iesuites, and sixteene young Germaine maides. Presented in a church (within the dukedome of Bauaria) at the high altar, in the citie of Miniken in Germanie, in March . 1607. / Translated out of the High-Dutch, and printed at Nuremberg by Iohn Lankenberger. 1607 (1607) STC 14526.5; ESTC S93353 11,019 28

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