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A39719 Love's kingdom a pastoral trage-comedy : not as it was acted at the theatre near Lincolns-Inn, but as it was written, and since corrected / by Richard Flecknoe ; with a short treatise of the English stage, &c. by the same author. Flecknoe, Richard, d. 1678? 1664 (1664) Wing F1229; ESTC R14723 38,650 104

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