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A12819 Meditations, and resolutions, moral, divine, politicall century I : written for the instruction and bettering of youth, but, especially, of the better and more noble / by Antony Stafford ... ; there is also annexed an oration of Iustus Lipsius, against calumnie, translated out of Latine, into English. Stafford, Anthony.; Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606. 1612 (1612) STC 23127; ESTC S1001 32,969 235

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