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A25961
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Poems written by Henry Lord Arundel of Warder and Count of the Sacred Roman Cmpire [sic].
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Arundell of Wardour, Henry Arundell, Baron, 1606?-1694.
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1679
(1679)
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Wing A3896; ESTC R27197
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