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A08637 Ovids festivalls, or, Romane calendar translated into English verse equinumerally, by John Gower ...; Fasti. English. 1640 Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.; Gower, John, 17th Century. 1640 (1640) STC 18948.5; ESTC S1325 100,089 190

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