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The Miracle Play in England,
An Account of the Early Religious Drama.
BY SIDNEY W. CLARKE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW.
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Transcriber's Notes:
Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_.
Punctuation has been corrected without note.
The following misprints have been corrected: "Thackerey" corrected to "Thackeray" (page 87) "improptu" corrected to "impromptu" (page 87) "access" corrected to "excess" (page 112)
Other than the corrections listed above, inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been retained from the original.