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A27314 A poem to Sir Roger L'Estrange on his third part of the history of the times relating to the death of Sir Edmund Bury-Godfrey / by Mrs. A. Behn. Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689. 1688 (1688) Wing B1756; ESTC R19513 1,405 10

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