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Love poetry, English - Early works to 1800

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    The Lovers loyalty or, The happy houshold Exemplified in the happy lives of Tommy Potts, now Lord Arundel and fair Rosamond his charming bride, who lov'd and liv'd in the peace and unity all there days, the second book, adorn'd with cuts. Licenced and entred according to order.

    | Date: 1775?]
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    The Loving quaker. Tune, O dear w [blank]

    | Date: [1800?]
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    Ovid's art of love, in three books : together with his remedy of love / translated into English verse by Dryden, Congreve, and others. To which are added, The court of love, A tale from Chaucer, and The history of love.

    Ovid | Date: [1764]
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    A love epistle , in verse. Written at Paris, By the Author of the Marriage Act, a Novel; Letters on the English Nation; Lydia, &c. &c. &c.

    Shebbeare, John, 1709-1788. | Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]
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    Love-elegies, by Mr. Hammond. Written in the year M.DCC.XXXII. With a preface by the Earl of C---d

    Hammond, James, 1710-1742. | Date: 1791
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Elegiac poetry, English - Early works to 1800

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