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A56857 The history of the most vile Dimagoras who by treachery and poison blasted the incomparable beauty of divine Parthenia : inter-woven with the history of Amoronzo and Celania / by John Quarles. Quarles, John, 1624-1665. 1658 (1658) Wing Q132; ESTC R35365 65,403 181

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