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14 King William A. B. FROST A. H. BULLEN Airs circ BATESON'S Second Set beauty beguile Book of Airs Book of Songs CAMPION and ROSSETER'S CAMPION'S Fourth Book CAMPION'S Two Books Christ Church cloth dear desire disdain doth edition Elizabethan eyes F. G. FLEAY fair fairy-queen fancy farewell fear GEORGE PEELE gilt top give grace grief hath heart heavenly hope Illustrations JOHN DOWLAND'S King William Street kiss live love's Lyrics maid MARTIN PEERSON'S Medium 8vo ne'er never night Nimmo numbered Original Etchings ORLANDO GIBBONS poem Portraits printed Proserpina Publications of John ROBERT JONES ROSSETER'S Book Second Book Set of Madrigals sighs Sing lullaby sleep song-book Songs and Airs Songs or Airs Sonnets sorrow soul Strand sweet tears thee thine Third Book THOMAS BATESON'S Second THOMAS CAMPION'S Fourth THOMAS WEELKES thoughts Ultimum Vale vate Music volume vows W.C. Publications WILLIAM BYRD'S wilt women wound
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