Selected quad for the lemma: act_n
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A74204
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Verses: lately vvritten by Thomas Earle of Strafford.
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Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, 1593-1641, attributed name.
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1642
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Thomason 669.f.4[11]
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