Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

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book_n	author_n	write_v	year_n	2,966	5	4.5239	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01365	A very briefe and profitable treatise declaring hovve many counsells, and vvhat maner of counselers a prince that will gouerne well ought to haue The book speaketh. ...; Consejo i consejeros del principe. English. Abridgments	Furio Ceriol, Fadrique, d. 1592.; Blundeville, Thomas, fl. 1561.	1570 (1570)	STC 11488; ESTC S105670	28,475	130

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