Literature
- Dante, La Terza Rima
- George Herbert, The Temple, sacred poems, Cambridge 1641
- Milton, Paradise Lost, 1674
- Paradise Regained, with Samson Agonistes, 1671
- Abraham Cowley, Poems, with his Davideis 1656
- Edmund Spenser Works, 1679
- The Faerie Queene in 12 books, 1609
- Ben Jonson, Works, 2 Vols. 1616/1640
- Edmund Gayton's Pleasant notes upon Don Quixote 1654
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