Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n
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An elegy, on the death of the reverend, learned. and pious William Bell, D.D. vicar of S. Sepulchres; who died July the 19th, 1683.
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1683
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Wing E402; Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.3[11]; ESTC R36109
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