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The faerie queene : disposed into XII bookes, fashioning twelue morall vertues (1609)

Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599, Lownes, Humphrey, d. 1629, Lownes, Matthew, d. 1625 · At London : Printed by H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes · leaf 283

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