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love_n appear_v love_v world_n 2,596 5 5.0317 4 false
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A53606 Ovid's epistles translated by several hands.; Heroides. English Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.; Dryden, John, 1631-1700. 1680 (1680) Wing O659; ESTC R6089 82,305 296

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