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A02099 Greenes farewell to folly Sent to courtiers and schollers as a president to warne them from the vaine delights that drawes youth on to repentance. Robert Greene vtriusque AcademiƦ in Artibus magister. Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592. 1591 (1591) STC 12241; ESTC S105962 57,357 94

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