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cause_n court_n defendant_n plaintiff_n 3,417 5 10.5128 5 true
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A43443 Poor Robin's visions wherein is described the present humours of the times, the vices and fashionable fopperies thereof, and after what manner men are punished for them hereafter : discovered in a dream. Poor Robin.; Herrick, Robert, 1591-1674.; Winstanley, Robert, b. 1647?; Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698. 1677 (1677) Wing H1598; ESTC R1859 42,525 135

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