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B07987 Axiochus. A most excellent dialogue, written in Greeke by Plato the phylosopher: concerning the shortnesse and vncertainty of this life, with the contrary ends of the good and wicked. / Translated out of Greeke by Edw. [sic] Spenser. ; Heereto is annexed a sweet speech or oration spoken at the tryumphe at White-hall before her Maiestie, by the page to the right noble Earle of Oxenforde..; Axiochus. English. Spenser. 1592. Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. 1592 (1592) STC 19974.6; ESTC S125749 12,676 38

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