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Title: Gycia
A Tragedy in Five Acts

Author: Lewis Morris

Release Date: January 16, 2009 [eBook #27817]

Language: English

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GYCIA

by

LEWIS MORRIS

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GYCIA

A Tragedy in Five Acts

by

LEWIS MORRIS

M.A.; Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford
Knight of the Redeemer of Greece, Etc., Etc.

Second Edition

London
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1886

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CONTENTS

Preface

Dramatis Personae

Act I
Scene 1 Bosphorus. The King's palace.
Scene 2 Outside the palace.

Act II
Scene 1 L