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A13493 The sculler rowing from Tiber to Thames with his boate laden with a hotch-potch, or gallimawfry of sonnets, satyres, and epigrams. With an addition of pastorall equiuocques or the complaint of a shepheard. By Iohn Taylor. Taylor, John, 1580-1653. 1612 (1612) STC 23791; ESTC S118270 25,111 50

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