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A00941 A panoplie of epistles, or, a looking glasse for the vnlearned Conteyning a perfecte plattforme of inditing letters of all sorts, to persons of al estates and degrees, as well our superiours, as also our equalls and inferiours: vsed of the best and the eloquentest rhetoricians that haue liued in all ages, and haue beene famous in that facultie. Gathered and translated out of Latine into English, by Abraham Flemming.; Panoplie of epistles. Cicero, Marcus Tullius.; Ascham, Roger, 1515-1568.; Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607. 1576 (1576) STC 11049; ESTC S102286 389,703 458

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