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A01522 The steele glas A satyre co[m]piled by George Gascoigne Esquire. Togither with The complainte of Phylomene. An elegie deuised by the same author. Gascoigne, George, 1542?-1577. 1576 (1576) STC 11645; ESTC S102876 34,222 124

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