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A61401
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A miscellany of poems upon several occassions, both moral and amorous with many odes, songs, acrosticks, epigrams, and elegies, as also divine hymns / composed by T.S.
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Steevens, Thomas.
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1689
(1689)
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Wing S5399; ESTC R24112
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