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A70131 The mourning swain a funeral eclogue [sic] humbly offer'd to the memory of the Right Honourable James Earl of Abingdon / written by Mr. Robert Gould ... Gould, Robert, d. 1709? 1700 (1700) Wing G1428; ESTC R2706 10,797 28

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