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A53929
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Advice to Balam's ass, or, Momus catechised in answer to a certaine scurrilous and abusive scribler, one John Heydon, author of Advice to a daughter / by T.P., Gent.
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Pecke, Thomas, b. 1637.
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Wing P1039; ESTC R7861
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