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A29149 Several poems compiled with great variety of wit and learning, full of delight wherein especially is contained a compleat discourse, and description of the four elements, constitutions, ages of man, seasons of the year, together with an exact epitome of the three by a gentlewoman in New-England.; Tenth muse lately sprung up in America Bradstreet, Anne, 1612?-1672. 1678 (1678) Wing B4166; ESTC R22624 114,811 269

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