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The faerie queene : Disposed into twelue bookes, fashioning XII. morall vertues (1596)

Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599, Wolfe, John, d. 1601, printer, Ponsonby, William, 1546?-1604, publisher · London : Printed [by Richard Field] for VVilliam Ponsonbie · leaf 4

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