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A26535 Æsop improved, or, Above three hundred and fifty fables, mostly Æsop's with their morals paraphrased in English verse : amounting to about one hundred and fifty more than do appear to have been so rendered by any other hand. Aesop. 1673 (1673) Wing A742; ESTC R17851 108,679 244

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