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| Title | The alliance of musick, poetry & oratory |
| Author | Anselm Bayly |
| Publisher | John Stockdale, 1789 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 15 May 2007 |
| ISBN | 0598390782, 9780598390783 |
| Length | 390 pages |
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