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A10666 Dolarnys primerose. Or the first part of the passionate hermit wherein is expressed the liuely passions of zeale and loue, with an alluding discourse to valours ghost. Both pleasant and profitable, if iudiciously read, and rightly vnderstood. Written by a practitioner in poesie, and a stranger among poets, which causeth him dread this sentence: Nihil ad parmenonis suem. Reynolds, John, fl. 1621-1650.; Reynolds, John, fl. 1621-1650, attributed name. 1606 (1606) STC 20941.7; ESTC S101214 32,543 74

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