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    'The court poet twanged his lyre'

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    British Library archive Charles Snyder court poet twanged

    10. 'The court poet twanged his lyre'

    Taken from page 309 of 'Comic History of Greece from the earliest times to the death of Alexander the Great’ by Charles M.Snyder, published in 1898.

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