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I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed.
I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed.
Approximate author period: c. 1738 AD · early modern
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- William Shenstone
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- Approximate author period: c. 1738 AD · early modern
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
A Pastoral. Part i.
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