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A08649 The. xv. bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis, translated oute of Latin into English meeter, by Arthur Golding Gentleman, a worke very pleasaunt and delectable. 1567.; Metamorphoses. English Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.; Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606. 1567 (1567) STC 18956; ESTC S110249 342,090 434

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