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A77795 Melpomene: or, The muses delight Being new poems and songs. Written by several of the great wits of our present age, as I.D. T.F. S.W. T.S. C.O. I.B. &c. Collected together, and now printed.; New collection of poems and songs. Bulteel, John, fl. 1683.; Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, 1647-1680. aut; Owen, Corbett, 1646-1671. aut 1678 (1678) Wing B5456; ESTC R216784 41,653 172

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