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A39005 An Excellent and most-pleasant new sonnet shewing how the goddess Diana transform'd Acteon into the shape of a hart. Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?; Gascoigne, George, 1542?-1577. 1670 (1670) Wing E3780; Wing E3834B; ESTC R36404 2,021 1

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