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A30403 Two books of elegies in imitation of the first books of Ovid de Tristibus, with part of the third to which is added verses upon several occasions with some translations out of the Latin and Greek poets / by Thomas Ball. Ball, Thomas. 1697 (1697) Wing B585; ESTC R28342 45,440 169

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