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A61401 A miscellany of poems upon several occassions, both moral and amorous with many odes, songs, acrosticks, epigrams, and elegies, as also divine hymns / composed by T.S. Steevens, Thomas. 1689 (1689) Wing S5399; ESTC R24112 40,644 142

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