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A glasse for gamesters and namelie for suche as delight in cards & dise: wherein thei maie see not onely the vanitie, but also the vilenesse of those plaies plainly discouered and ouerthrowen by the word of God. Written by T.W.
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T. W. (Thomas Wilcox), 1549?-1608.
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STC 25623; ESTC S103066
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