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A14380 A prospectiue glasse to looke into heauen, or The cœlestiall Canaan described Together with the soules sacred soliloquie, and most ardent desire to be inuested into the same. Sung in a most heauenly hymne, to the great comfort of all good Christians, by the Muses most vnworthy, Iohn Vicars. Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652. 1618 (1618) STC 24698; ESTC S111547 48,107 79

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