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And call'd it Caissa from the dryad's name:
(Whence Albion's sons, who most its praise confess,
Approv'd the play, and nam'd it thoughtful Chess.)



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Caissa
The Game at Chess;
a Poem.
(written in the year 1763,
by Sir William Jones)


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Lou Osternig

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