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A64184 Misselanies, or, Fifty years gathering out of sundry authors in prose and verse being the studious readings, painful collections, and some of them are the composings of the writer and publisher heerof / John Taylor. Taylor, John, 1580-1653. 1652 (1652) Wing T483A; ESTC R27535 17,565 42

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