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enemy_n advantage_n army_n place_n 1,086 5 4.0319 3 false
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A02120 Greenes Orpharion VVherin is discouered a musicall concorde of pleasant histories, many sweet moodes graced vvith such harmonius discords, as agreeing in a delightfull closse, they sound both pleasure and profit to the eare. Heerein also as in a diateheron, the branches of vertue, ascending and descending by degrees: are covnited in the glorious praise of women-kind. VVith diuers tragicall and comicall histories presented by Orpheus and Arion, beeing as full of profit as of pleasure. Robertus Greene, in Artibus Magister. Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592. 1599 (1599) STC 12260; ESTC S103410 40,070 64

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