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Acknowledgements |
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15 | (2) |
Introduction: Which Love and Which Morality? |
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17 | (14) |
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i The Thematic Scope of this Book |
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17 | (2) |
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ii A Critical and Theoretical Background |
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19 | (5) |
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iii The Subject and Method of this Book |
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24 | (7) |
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Chapter One Love and Moral Perfection: Medieval Literary and Cultural Traditions |
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31 | (28) |
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1.1 The Provencal Love Lyric and the Troubadour Tradition |
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31 | (3) |
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1.2 The Chansons de Geste and the Epic Tradition |
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34 | (3) |
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1.3 The Latin Scholastic Tradition |
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37 | (4) |
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1.4 Classical Tradition and Christian Belief |
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41 | (5) |
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1.5 Chaucer and the Philosophical and Amatory Traditions |
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46 | (7) |
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1.6 The Chaucerian Tradition in Scotland |
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53 | (6) |
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Chapter Two Love and Reason: The Romaunt of the Rose and The Goldyn Targe |
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2.1 "His lordship is so full of shours" |
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60 | (1) |
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2.2 "Resoun men clepe that lady" |
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61 | (1) |
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2.3 Delight - "the prince of every vice" |
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62 | (1) |
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2.4 "Thy myght, thi vertu goth away" |
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63 | (1) |
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2.5 "In erthe is not oure countre" |
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64 | (2) |
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2.6 "Hir doctrine I sette at nought" |
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66 | (1) |
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2.7 "I raise and by a rosere did me rest" |
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67 | (2) |
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2.8 "Be lufis quene I was aspyit" |
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69 | (1) |
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2.9 "Quhill Presence kest a pulder in his ene" |
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70 | (2) |
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2.10 "Quhy was thou blyndit, Resoun, quhi, allace?" |
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72 | (1) |
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2.11 "Halesum the vale depaynt wyth flouris ying" |
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73 | (1) |
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2.12 "Defendit me that nobil chevallere" |
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74 | (3) |
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2.13 "Wele aucht thou be aferit of the licht" |
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77 | (2) |
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79 | (2) |
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Chapter Three Love and the Virtue of Necessity: Chaucer's Boethian Poems and James I's The Kingis Quair |
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81 | (30) |
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3.1 "Nothing happens other than by necessity" |
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82 | (2) |
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3.2 "Eschue thou vices; worschipe and love thou vertues" |
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84 | (2) |
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3.3 "I have lost more than thow wenest" |
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86 | (3) |
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3.4 "Swich is this world, whoso it kan byholde" |
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89 | (4) |
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3.5 "What is this world? What asketh men to have?" |
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93 | (4) |
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3.6 "His metir swete full of moralitee" |
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97 | (2) |
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3.7 "The glade empire / Off blisfuU Venus" |
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99 | (2) |
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3.8 "Ground thy werk [ ...] upon the stone" |
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101 | (3) |
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3.9 "Dame Minerve, the pacient goddesse" |
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104 | (3) |
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3.10 "Spend wele [ ...] the remanant of the day" |
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107 | (2) |
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109 | (2) |
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Chapter Four Love and the Virtue of Honor: The House of Fame and The Palis ofHonoure |
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111 | (32) |
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112 | (2) |
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4.2 "Al that longeth unto Fame" |
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114 | (1) |
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4.3 "Goddesse of Renoun or of Fame" |
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115 | (1) |
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4.4 "Soun ys noght but eyr ybroken" |
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116 | (2) |
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4.5 "Fals and soth compouned" |
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118 | (2) |
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4.6 "Good ne harm, ne that ne this" |
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120 | (1) |
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4.7 "A larges, larges, hold up well" |
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121 | (3) |
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4.8 "I wot myself best how ystonde" |
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124 | (2) |
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4.9 "Out of the ayr come ane impressioun" |
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126 | (1) |
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4.10 "Ane lusty rout of bestis rationall" |
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127 | (1) |
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4.11 "Raid Diane that ladyis hartis dressys" |
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128 | (1) |
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4.12 "The court so variabill" |
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129 | (1) |
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4.13 "The court of plesand stedfastnes" |
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130 | (2) |
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4.14 "Sche of nobillis fatis hes the stere" |
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132 | (2) |
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4.15 "The fynall end of our travail" |
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134 | (1) |
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4.16 "Intronyt sat a god armypotent" |
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135 | (1) |
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4.17 "For vertu is a thing sa precious" |
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136 | (2) |
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4.18 "In that myrrour I mycht se at a sycht" |
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138 | (1) |
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4.19 "All nobilnesse presupponis vertu" |
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139 | (1) |
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140 | (3) |
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Chapter Five Love and the Common Good: The Parliament of Fowls and The Thrissill and the Rois |
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143 | (26) |
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5.1 "Associations and federations of men" |
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143 | (2) |
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145 | (1) |
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5.3 "Derk was that place" |
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146 | (2) |
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5.4 "The noble goddesse of kynde" |
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148 | (2) |
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5.5 "The vicaire of the almyghty Lord" |
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150 | (1) |
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5.6 "I chese, and chese with wil, and herte, and thought" |
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151 | (3) |
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5.7 "For to delyvere us is gret charite" |
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154 | (2) |
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5.8 "Nowpes [ ...]! eomaunde heer!" |
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156 | (1) |
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5.9 "Haill princes Natur, haill Venus, luvis quene!" |
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157 | (2) |
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5.10 "Exerce justice with mercy and conscience" |
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159 | (2) |
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5.11 "In feild go furth and fend the laif" |
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161 | (1) |
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5.12 "And sen thew art a king, thow be discreit" |
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162 | (1) |
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5.13 "Haill Rois both reld and quhyt" |
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163 | (2) |
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5.14 "The commoun vece uprais of birdis small" |
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165 | (2) |
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167 | (2) |
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Chapter Six The Virtue of Love: Troilus and Criseyde and The Testament of Cresseid |
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169 | (32) |
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6.1 "This Troilui ii elomben on the staire" |
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170 | (1) |
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6.2 "A thing so vertuous in kynde" |
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171 | (2) |
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6.3 "For I am sik in ernest, douteles" |
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173 | (2) |
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6.4 "In his thought he nas somewhat diseased" |
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175 | (1) |
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6.5 "O blynde world, O blynde entencioun" |
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176 | (2) |
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6.6 "For thow shalt Into hevene blisse wende" |
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178 | (1) |
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6.7 "Thynbethepeyneofhelle!" |
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179 | (2) |
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6.8 "As Orpheus and Eurydice, his feere" |
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181 | (1) |
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6.9 "For the erthe overcomen yeveth the sterres" |
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182 | (1) |
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6.10 "Almyghty Jove In trone" |
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183 | (3) |
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6.11 "Schouris of haill gartfra the north discend" |
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186 | (2) |
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6.12 "Than desolait scho walkit up and doun" |
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188 | (1) |
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6.13 "Allace, that ever 1 maid yow sacrifice!" |
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189 | (1) |
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6.14 "The sevin planetis discending fra thair spheiris" |
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190 | (2) |
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6.15 "Quhair is thy chalmer wantounlie besene?" |
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192 | (2) |
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6.16 "For all your mlcht may cum to that same end" |
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194 | (2) |
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6.17 "Fy, fals Cresseid! O trew knicht Troylus!" |
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196 | (1) |
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6.18 "My spreit I leif to Diane quhair scho dwellis" |
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197 | (2) |
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199 | (2) |
Afterword |
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201 | (2) |
Bibliography |
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203 | (16) |
Index of Names |
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219 | (6) |
Index of Works and Characters |
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225 | (4) |
Index of Terms |
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