DE LIBRIS
PROSE & VERSE BY AUSTIN DOBSON
Vt Mel Os, sic Cor Melos afficit, & reficit.
Deuteromelia.
A mixture of a Song doth ever adde Pleasure.
BACON (adapted).
Copyright 1908 by The Macmillan Company

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