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cause_n bear_v fruit_n tree_n 1,451 5 8.5127 4 false
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A94300 Pray be not angry: or, The womens new law: With their several votes, orders, rules, and precepts, to the London-prentices, both in Cheap-side, Lumbard-street, Fish-street, Gracious-street, Broad-street, Fleet-street, Newgate-market, the Strand, Convent-garden; and all other places whatsoever, in and about the City of London, or parts adjacent. Likewise, their rare presidents and instructions, both to young-men and old, for the choosing of a good wife, or vertuous mistress; and how they shall know and distinguish an honest woman from an enticing and dissembling whore. Printed according to order; being pleasant for young-men, profitable for old-men, and hurtful to none. Thorowgood, G. 1656 (1656) Wing T1064; Thomason E885_7; ESTC R207326 6,294 8

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