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A10252 Diuine poems containing the history of [brace] Ionah, Ester, Iob, Sampson : Sions [brace] sonets, elegies / written and newly augmented by Fra. Quarles. Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644. 1633 (1633) STC 20534; ESTC S2289 223,036 523

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