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"Nero --- & lo'n dit qu'on entendoit un son de trumpette dans les collines d'alentour, des gemissemens sur le tombeau de sa mere."
Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects John Aubrey 1661
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In a sermon of 1578 we read the following bitter and deep-drawn sigh by the clergyman John Stockwood: "Wyll not a fylthye playe wyth the blast of a trumpette sooner call thyther a thousande than an houres tolling of
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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