Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n
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A39170
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An Elegy to the heroick and eternal memory of the Right Honourable and most loyal Edward Henry, Earl of Lichfield, lately deceased
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1694
(1694)
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Wing E448A; ESTC R36193
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