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David and Fair Bethsabe, The Love of King
David and Fair Bethsabe, The Love of King,a play in blank verse by Peele , printed 1599 . Its sources are mainly scriptural, offering a highly poeticized account of King David's seduction of Bethsabe (Bathsheba) and the death of his son Absalon .
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