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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10411	Poems with the Muses looking-glasse: and Amyntas· By Thomas Randolph Master of Arts, and late fellow of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge.	Randolph, Thomas, 1605-1635.; Randolph, Robert, 1612 or 13-1671.	1638 (1638)	STC 20694; ESTC S115618	150,754	394

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