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A05290 The teares or lamentations of a sorrowfull soule. Set foorth by Sir William Leighton Knight, one of his Maiesties honorable band of pentioners Leighton, William, Sir, fl. 1603-1614. 1613 (1613) STC 15433; ESTC S108437 69,222 214

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