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Select English songs and dialogues of the 16th and 17th centuries
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Lyrical Gleanings, comprising Madrigals, Odes, Songs, and Sonnets, chiefly by anonymous writers of the 16th and part of the 17th centuries: compiled by Joseph Haslewood
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