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A50713 Merry drollery, or A Collection of [brace] jovial poems, merry songs, witty drolleries intermix'd with pleasant catches The first part / collected by W.N., C.B., R.S., J.G., lovers of wit. W. N. 1661 (1661) Wing M1860; ESTC R43449 66,103 184

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