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A51466 The most lamentable and deplorable history of the two children in the wood: containing the unhappy loves and lives of their parents, the treachery and barbarous villany of their unkle, the duel between the murdering ruffians, and the unhappy and deplorable death of the two innocent children. As also an account of the justice of God that overtook the unnatural unkle; and of the deserved death of the two murdering ruffians. To which is annex'd, the old song upon the same. 1700 (1700) Wing M2901A; ESTC R214249 9,472 16

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