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Gesta Grayorum : 1688.

General note: "There are three main points of literary interest in the Gesta Grayorum, namely, a supposed allusion to Shakespeare's Comedy of errors, the speeches of the six councillors, (ascribed to Francis Bacon) and the Masque of Proteus ... (Of the masque, really the occasion of the present reprint) Francis Davison was ... the main author", Cf. Introduction. "This reprint ... has been prepared under the direction of the general editor [W. W. Greg]", Cf. title page verso.