Copy of Metempsychosis, or, The progresse of the soule, 1601 [manuscript], ca. 1625.

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Copy of Metempsychosis, or, The progresse of the soule, 1601 [manuscript], ca. 1625.

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Text appears on unnumbered leaves at the beginning of the volume, leaves [3r] to [16v]. Variant readings from the first printed version of 1633. Also contains Certain select dialogs of Lucian, in English (not Hiches' or Mayne's translations), p. 1-100; The fable of San Foy, incomplete, p. 100, and Concerning tragedy, a later piece, ca. 1750, laid in after p. 111. Scrap of paper inserted opposite p. 52, with a verse satirizing lawyers.

[17] leaves, 100, 110-111, [2] p.

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