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book_n good_a read_v see_v 2,579 5 3.2518 3 true
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A25576 An Answer to the Bishop of Rochester's second letter to the Earl of Dorset &c. by an English-man. Englishman.; Charlton, Mr. 1689 (1689) Wing A3390; ESTC R31265 19,150 70

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