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A66890 Anti-boreale an answer to that seditious and lewd piece of poetry upon Master Calamy's late confinement, supposed his who wrote Iter boreale. Womock, Laurence, 1612-1685. 1662 (1662) Wing W3334; ESTC R31824 84,472 126

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