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A61492
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The vvits paraphras'd, or, Paraphrase upon paraphrase in a burlesque on the several late translations of Ovids Epistles.
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Stevenson, Matthew, fl. 1654-1685.
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1680
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Wing S5513; ESTC R18605
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