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A27986 The book of the Song of Solomon in meeter with some brief observations from the text, something pleasant, but more profitable to the unprejudiced reader, who loves the knowledge of God, and hath his heart inflam'd with the love of the Lord Jesus / by T.S. ... T. S. 1676 (1676) Wing B2632; ESTC R36655 56,274 78

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