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| Title | Hudibras, Volume 1 Hudibras, Samuel Butler Hudibras, Samuel Butler Macmillan's school class books |
| Author | Samuel Butler |
| Editor | Alfred Milnes |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1881 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 12 Feb 2008 |
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