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Nocturnall lucubrations: or Meditations divine and morall Whereunto are added epigrams and epitaphs: written by Rob: Chamberlain of Exeter Colledge in Oxford.
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Chamberlain, Robert, b. 1607.
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1638
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STC 4945; ESTC S104928
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