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Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?
Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?
Approximate author period: c. 1641 AD · renaissance
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- John Milton
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- Approximate author period: c. 1641 AD · renaissance
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
The History of England. Book iv.
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