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A33398 The songs of Moses and Deborah paraphras'd with poems on several occasions : never before publish'd : to which is added, a Pindarick on Mr. L'Estrange. Cleeve, Charles, b. 1661. 1685 (1685) Wing C4625; ESTC R12342 42,192 162

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