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A61120 Kaina kai palaia Things new and old, or, A store-house of similies, sentences, allegories, apophthegms, adagies, apologues, divine, morall, politicall, &c. : with their severall applications / collected and observed from the writings and sayings of the learned in all ages to this present by John Spencer ... Spencer, John, d. 1680.; Fuller, Thomas, (1608-1661) 1658 (1658) Wing S4960; ESTC R16985 1,028,106 735

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