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A58024 The tragedies of the last age consider'd and examin'd by the practice of the ancients and by the common sense of all ages in a letter to Fleetwood Shepheard, Esq. / by Thomas Rymer, of Grays-Inn, Esq. Rymer, Thomas, 1641-1713. 1678 (1678) Wing R2430; ESTC R2180 47,703 161

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