Clievelandi Vindiciæ, or, Clieveland's genuine poems, orations, epistles, &c. purged from the many false and spurious ones which had usurped his name, and from innumerable errours and corruptions in the true copies : to which are added many never printed before, with an account of the author's life.

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Clievelandi Vindiciæ, or, Clieveland's genuine poems, orations, epistles, &c. purged from the many false and spurious ones which had usurped his name, and from innumerable errours and corruptions in the true copies : to which are added many never printed before, with an account of the author's life.
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Cleveland, John, 1613-1658.
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London :: Printed for Robert Harford ...,
1677.
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Cleveland, John, 1613-1658.
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"Clievelandi Vindiciæ, or, Clieveland's genuine poems, orations, epistles, &c. purged from the many false and spurious ones which had usurped his name, and from innumerable errours and corruptions in the true copies : to which are added many never printed before, with an account of the author's life." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A33433.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.

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Ad eundem Episcopum Dunel∣mensem.

Reverende Praesul, Mecoenas unice;

TAm frequentia sunt erga nos benefici vestra, tam perpetuis Choreis in orbem acta, ut ducat ilia gratitudo nostra, nec anhe∣la tamen Liberalitati tantae respondere possit. Literae enim nostrae quid aliud sunt quam hu∣manitatis vestrae Echo? ita dimidiata lo∣quuntur voe, nec nisi ultimas ejus syllabas possunt repetere. Quorsum antem medita∣mur gratias, quas ne impune usquam egimus, quin nova subinde in vindictam surgit Muni∣ficentia. Nolumus tamen, nolumus inulti ce∣dère, usque rebelles in obsequio erimus, & quo unico tam divinam indolem ulcisci possu∣mus, munera vestra agnoscemus. Desponsast tibi Bibliothecam nostram (ut Romanis u∣sus) per coemptionem, quae singulas librorum frontes mariti nomine inscripta, tanquam vi∣cturo genio Posteritati commendatur. V∣num autem prae omnibus Amplitudinè vestrae debemus librum, illum volumus memorem Pa∣tronorum indicem, qui scriptus & in tergo, nec dum sinitus, nomen tuum, ut utrámque

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ejus paginam summâ cum lubentiâ recorda∣tur

Paternitati vestrae devotissimi Magister & Socii Coll. D. I.

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