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A40840 The Famous and renowned history of the two unfortunate, though noble lovers, Hero and Leander giving an account of all that happened from the beginning of their loves, till both of them ended their lives in the sea for love of each other : their various adventures and the renowned atchivements [sic] of Leander in his many glorious victorys & successes till he was forbid access to the fair Hero by her cruel father upon his killing his rival in a combat : also how (she being imprisoned in a tower) he swam over the sea to visit her & in a boistrous storm was drownded, for the sorrow of which, she leaped into the waves & drownded herself. J. S. 1680 (1680) Wing F361A; ESTC R2009 13,393 18

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