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Another work of the same class is the well-known Scala Perfectionis, by Walter Hylton. The edition before me is that printed by Wynkyn de Worde NOTES: The Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. 401-in 1533. There is a woodcut on the title-page of The Oxburgh MSS., 402-Monuments in the Museum, the Saviour standing by the cross with a monk Lexical Greek Words-Abp. Laud and Ritual-Hair grow-kneeling. Below are the words, forming part of ing after Death, 405-Citations touching on Angling The the woodcut and not printed with type, "The

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