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A05290
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The teares or lamentations of a sorrowfull soule. Set foorth by Sir William Leighton Knight, one of his Maiesties honorable band of pentioners
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Leighton, William, Sir, fl. 1603-1614.
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1613
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STC 15433; ESTC S108437
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