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A24602 Poor Robin, 1683 a prognostication for the year of our Lord God 1683 : containing the vulgar notes for this present years times when to marry a good wife if you can light of her, a description of the three eclipses of this year, two of the moon, and one of the sun, when they happen, and what it signified by them, a more accurate account of the four quarters of the year, than hath hitherto been given, a very useful scheme ... Poor Robin.; Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698. 1683 (1683) Wing A2202; ESTC R5993 8,555 13

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