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Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures : newly devised, moralized, and published (1612)

Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643? · London : Printed ... by Wa. Dight · leaf 194

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