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A02226 Certaine learned and elegant vvorkes of the Right Honorable Fulke Lord Brooke written in his youth, and familiar exercise with Sir Philip Sidney. The seuerall names of which workes the following page doth declare. Greville, Fulke, Baron Brooke, 1554-1628. 1633 (1633) STC 12361; ESTC S120837 44,075 360

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