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A09922 The praise of musicke wherein besides the antiquitie, dignitie, delectation, & vse thereof in ciuill matters, is also declared the sober and lawfull vse of the same in the congregation and church of God. Case, John, d. 1600, attributed name. 1586 (1586) STC 20184; ESTC S115011 65,829 162

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