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A29640 Lachrymæ musarum The tears of the muses : exprest in elegies / written by divers persons of nobility and worth upon the death of the most hopefull, Henry Lord Hastings ... ; collected and set forth by R.B. Brome, Richard, d. 1652?; Dryden, John, 1631-1700. 1649 (1649) Wing B4876; ESTC R2243 29,474 101

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