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A95491
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The Tyrannical beauty. Beauty fadeth like a flower, then fair ladies be not proud, time and sickness may devour, what at present you'r allow'd. To a pleasant tune; called, Prodigious fate.
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1678-1681
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Wing T3570; ESTC R228628
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