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A13461 A iuniper lecture With the description of all sorts of women, good, and bad: from the modest to the maddest, from the most civil, to the scold rampant, their praise and dispraise compendiously related. Also the authors advice how to tame a shrew, or vexe her. Taylor, John, 1580-1653. 1639 (1639) STC 23766; ESTC S111401 39,881 238

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