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A06140 The pilgrimage of princes, penned out of sundry Greeke and Latine aucthours, by Lodovvicke Lloid Gent Lloyd, Lodowick, fl. 1573-1610. 1573 (1573) STC 16624; ESTC S108781 286,699 458

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