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Love poetry - Early works to 1800

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    Of death a true description : and against it a good preparation: together with a sweet consolation, for the suruiung mourners. By Iames Cole merchant.

    | Cole, James | Date: 1629
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    The lover's assistant: or, New Year's gift; being, a new Art of love, adapted to the present times. Translated ... With notes, by the late ingenious Henry Fielding, ..

    | Ovid | Date: 1759
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    The fatal virgin: or, The young lady's drowning herself in the river of Thames : who leap'd out of a boat in the middle of the river on Saturday last at ten at night, and taken up on Sunday morning the 23d. of July, 1710. at break of day. Tune of, Forgive me if your looks I thought, &c. Licens'd and enter'd.

    | Date: 1710
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    Love and resentment: a pastoral

    | Bezaleel Morrice | Date: [1717]
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    Tyrannick love Or, The royal martyr. A tragedy. By Mr. Drydln.

    | John Dryden | Date: MDCCLXII. [1762]
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