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A17130 Seaven sparkes of the enkindled soule With foure lamentations, which composed in the hard times of Queene Elizabeth, may be vsed at all times, when the Church hapneth to be extreamely persecuted. Drawne out of the holy Scriptures, after the forme of Psalmes. By R.B.P. Buckland, Ralph, 1564-1611. 1604-1605 (1605) STC 4008; ESTC S117366 36,700 158

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