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A53929 Advice to Balam's ass, or, Momus catechised in answer to a certaine scurrilous and abusive scribler, one John Heydon, author of Advice to a daughter / by T.P., Gent. Pecke, Thomas, b. 1637. 1658 (1658) Wing P1039; ESTC R7861 22,600 69

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