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A96745 The dark lantern containing a dim discoverie, in riddles, parables, and semi-riddles, intermixt with cautions, remembrances and predictions, as they were promiscuously and immethodically represented to their author, in his solitary musings, the third of November 1652. about midnight. Whereunto is annexed, a poem, concerning a perpetuall parliament. By Geo. Wither Esquire. Wither, George, 1588-1667. 1653 (1653) Wing W3152; Thomason E1432_3; ESTC R204097 38,711 84

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